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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!jbailey
- From: jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey)
- Subject: Re: Apple 21" display...
- Message-ID: <By78EC.JpH@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <2B115ED4.14651@news.service.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:32:36 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- tvasi@shakti.bio.uci.edu (Taha K. Vasi) writes:
-
- >Hi fellow netters,
- > I have a small question about my Apple 21" display. I have it hooked
- >up to a Quadra 700. I was told that I could only get 256 colors from the
- >inbuilt video. The Quadra comes with 1/2 meg VRAM, and has 6 more slots to
- >give me a total of 2 meg of VRAM. I have upgraded VRAM to 1 meg. So now I have 256 colors.
-
- > My question is...why does one need to increase VRAM to 2 meg, if
- >one does not get any more colors. Does resolution depend on VRAM?
-
- > Thanx
- > Taha
-
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- You get 24-bit video on 13" 640x480 and 16" 832x624 bit monitors.
- Also 24-bit video on 800x600 SVGA.
-