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From: chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu (Chuck Rickard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Question about 1 meg VGA cards
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Date: 11 Jan 91 18:06:51 GMT
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Just thinking about the memory involved in displaying a 1024x768 256 color
picture...

1024 pixels x 256 colors = 1 K bytes per row
1 K bytes x 768 rows = 768 K bytes

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?

Chuck Rickard
(chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu)

Chuck Rickard
(chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu)