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In article <162@osupyr.UUCP> czei@osupyr.UUCP (Michael S Czeiszperger) writes:
>This probably was discussed previously, but here it goes:
>I'm trying to figure out the effects of adding a 24 bit
>buffer card to our mac II. Is the memory needed for video 
>taken from regular virtual memory, or is it contained

Picky point:  No virtual memory on the Mac II (Yet).

>on the card?   Since a full screen image at 24 bits would
>probably fill up about 2.25 meg, the addition of the
>higher resolution board would contain the hidden costs of
>higher memory requirements.   

A 24-bit card does not use any more main memory per se, however, applications
that build off-screen PixMaps (images) that match the current maximum
screen depth would consume more memory (assuming the card is actually set
to run in 24-bit mode).  The actual screen memory is on the card, and
not available to anything but the video card.

The only people I know of that are even planning 24-bit video is SuperMac
(makers of the pretty, big, SuperMac 8-bit color display for the Mac II).
I think they're going to do it by using 3 of their 8-bit cards.

-Eric




Eric K. Olson		olson@endor.harvard.edu		harvard!endor!olson