Introducing Singleboard: Alpha. The build has an incredibly pleasing ... You’re not gonna run a fully-fledged GUI operating system on this thing, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be useful.

In computer graphics, the combining of the alpha channel with other layers in ... eight bits used with each pixel in a 32-bit graphics system that can represent 256 levels of translucency.

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 2, number 3 (May–June 1970), pages 12–13. The text is reproduced as ...