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From: allon@eng.umd.edu (Allon Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Where does video on the Mac II get its memory?
Message-ID: <1990Mar26.100104.552@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 90 10:01:04 GMT
Sender: allon@bagend.eng.umd.edu  (Allon Stern)
Organization: Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
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The other day, a friend and I were debating where the mac's video memory
(screen buffer?) resides.  I always thought that the memory is on the
video card, but my friend maintains that it gets taken from the main memory,
and that you can save memory by switching to 2-color mode.  So, which is it?

How about the Mac Plus and older, and the Portable which has a built - in
screen?  Thanks.

                             - -= Allon =- -

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