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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1024X800 Monitor
Keywords: How much memory?
Message-ID: <5705@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 14:31:03 GMT
References: <1779@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> <62474@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Organization: Dayton-Hudson Dept. Store Co.
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In article <62474@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <1779@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.  
>It's pretty easy to calculate, 1008 * 800 / 8 = 1008 * 100 = 100,800 bytes
>per bitplane. On a two bitplane screen thats 201,600 bytes minimum.


Oh, Chuck!  Why in the world would anyone want to use a two-bitplane screen
when they're using a black&white monitor to display the contents?  Seems to
me you can only display one color (white) at a time, so a single bitplane
sounds like plenty.....

-Joe


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