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From: coy@ssc-vax (Stephen B Coy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: JPEG compression: "press release"
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Date: 28 Jan 91 18:39:35 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.212650.6543@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
>well, for PC's there is the Hercules Graphics Station.
>it's a TIGA beast with a TMS34010 at 60MHz, and can do 24 bit color.
>unfortunately they (IMHO) fucked up, since you can only put 2MB
>on it. the consequence is, that you can't have 24 bit color at
>the highest resolution (1024x768), which would require 2.3MB :-(
>however, the 512x482x24 picture in BYTE was quite nice.

Actually it only uses less than a meg of image memory.  The 2Mb
upgrade is program memory for the TIGA chip.  Adding it won't change
the available resolutions.

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Stephen Coy
uw-beaver!ssc-vax!coy aka coy@ssc-vax.UUCP