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From: dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Direct access to screen pixels
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Date: 9 Jan 90 20:44:35 GMT
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In article <5963@cps3xx.UUCP> flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn) writes:

>Note that the NeXT screen is advertised as 1120x832, but seems to be
>laid out in memory as 1152x910. Hmm, I wonder where the 1152 came
>from...  :-).

Probably to align the pixels on byte and page boundaries.

	1152 pixels wide / 4 pixels/byte = 288, and
	288 x 910 pixels high =	262080 + 64 = 256 x 1024 bytes.

Seems pretty likely, don't you think?

						Eric Ly
						CSLI, Stanford University