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- From: innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen)
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- Subject: Re: CyberGraphX memory (Was: Haynie joins AT team)
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 05:22:16 GMT
- Organization: esCom Amiga Madison Enthusiast's Organisation
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- In article <4jbh4d$rff@news.internetmci.com> dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com (Dave Gentry) writes:
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- > > Well now, lets do a little math here. Let's take a typical screen, say 800
- > >pixels high, 600 pixels wide, and 24 bits deep, or 3 bytes per pixel. That's
- > >480,000 pixels at three bytes each: 1,440,000 bytes. Even a simple 8 bit
- > >640x480 screen takes nearly 300k of memory. It's not a flaw in SVGA chipsets,
- > >or CyberGraphX, it's just that high color screens take a lot of memory. As a
- > >certain Ambassador once said, "And here we are, victims of mathematics!" :-)
- >
- > >--
- > Shouldn't that be 800 wide by 600 high?
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- If you like it that way.... ;-)
- (Oops! Yeah, what he said.)
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- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
- Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
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