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From: jasst3@cisunx.UUCP (Jeffrey A. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite Problems
Summary: Does color use more memory?
Message-ID: <6988@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 02:00:07 GMT
References: <6933@cisunx.UUCP> <41898@sun.uucp>
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <41898@sun.uucp>, chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> >I thought that FW Pro Could run on a 1M Mac II?  A friend of mine got his
> 
> >Mac II, Internal HD, Color (256K) card, monitor.  
> 
> color? Try running in two bit mode. Color takes up more memory, which is
> probably getting you in trouble.
> 

Does using color really use more RAM?  I though t all of the color info was 
stored on the video card, which has 256K RAM, yes?  This is an interesting
idea which I poo-poo'd because of the above thought.


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Jeff Sullivan				University of Pittsburgh
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