Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1024X800 Monitor
Keywords: How much memory?
Message-ID: <4407@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 19:44:53 GMT
References: <1779@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 16

In article <1779@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> cheung@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Wilson Cheung) writes:
>
>	This 1024x800 black and white monitor that Commodore plans to release
>sounds exciting, especially since it will work with my A1000.  However,
>my concern is the amount of CHIP RAM this is going to hog up.  My understanding
>is that it will need eight 640x400, 4-bit plane screens.  Will this hog
>up all 512K of standard CHIP RAM, so that multi-tasking will be out of the
>question?

	Well, 1024x800x2 is 4 512x400x2, which is 2 512x400x4, which is
about 200K.  So you can work in 512K chip, but it might get tight in
some programs if you multitask or if they need lots of chip mem.  You can
still run in the lower-resolution modes.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup