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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Question about 1 meg VGA cards
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Date: 12 Jan 91 01:58:06 GMT
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In article <4839@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu writes:
|Just thinking about the memory involved in displaying a 1024x768 256 color
|picture...
|...
|So, the most memory required to display such a picture is 768K, right?
|What is done with the other 232K left over in the 1 meg of video memory?

Nothing. Do you want your money back?

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