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From: news@calgary.UUCP (Network News Manager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac IIci Video-Card or Internal better?
Message-ID: <2309@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 90 21:10:35 GMT
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Reply-To: sharp@ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca.UUCP (Maurice Sharp)
Organization: Knowledge Science Lab, U. of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
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is faster only if you are in black and white mode.  4 bit planes
starts pushing it, and forget 8 bit planes.  In fact, a normal color
display and 8 bit planes using internal, takes significantly longer to
update than an Apple 2 page using 4 bit planes driven from a card.
From: sharp@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp)
Path: cpsc!sharp

As to memory, if you are using the internal you better have at least 2
meg, I have 5 and am only tripped up using Smalltalk.  In fact, I am
getting 4 more megs. My full page takes about 64K per bit plane.

The other display I use is a full page, it is also very fast in black
and white.  Anything else starts to dog down the machine.

	Maurice
Maurice Sharp MSc. Student
University of Calgary Computer Science Department
2500 University Drive N.W.			      sharp@ksi.cpsc.UCalgary.CA
Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4	                   ...!alberta!calgary!sharp