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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //gs screen resolutions...
Message-ID: <12109@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Feb 90 14:27:52 GMT
References: <10078.infoapple.net@pro-generic>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <10078.infoapple.net@pro-generic> sysop@pro-generic.cts.com (Matthew Montano) writes:
>Some of the newer ones are 640*4X0 resolution still in 16 colors, and
>they sometimes over power the hardware. Do you know how much 640*400*16 takes
>up in memory? How about 256 colors per pixel... forget it.

640*400*4 bits (for  16 colors) = 128K bytes
640*400*8 bits (for 256 colors) = 256K bytes

Hardly out of the question.