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From: mikem@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Mike Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Video DRAM usage?
Summary: bad joke
Message-ID: <4637@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 89 04:41:55 GMT
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Reply-To: mikem@uhccux.UUCP (Mike Morton)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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Some time back, Don Gillies wrote:
>My calculations show that 217088 bytes of memory are unused by the Mac
>II video card...
>
>Does Color QuickDraw use this memory for something useful?  Has anyone
>written code to exploit this extra memory?  It seems like an ideal
>place to put a disk cache, or temporary pixel maps.  I was just
>wondering.

A disk cache in your video RAM...  maybe we should call this a
"video disk"?  Remember, you heard it here first ;-)

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