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Michael McCulloch writes
-> Get ready. This is probably only one of a long string of questions
-> that'll flood these newsgroups soon. :-)
-> 
-> NeXT's official info on NS486 says that it'll be capable of 1280x1024
-> 16-bit DPS on cards with ATI Mach 32 and Wingine chipsets. However,
-> many of the machines are only advertised to be capable of 1024x768 at
-> 256 colors for Windoze. Can the same video card provide the much
-> better DPS performance? Is additional video RAM required? If so, how
-> much?
-> 
	First off, I don't *know* anything -- about NS486, or anything much for  
that matter....but it seems to me (BISTM) that the card *must* have >2M since
1024*1280*2 = 2,621,440 bytes (2.560M)...as far as the supposed resolution  
enhancement goes...most graphics chips for PCs will support 1280x1024, but this  
would seem to require more than 1M of ram at 8bits/pixels...so they use  
1024x768...similarly a lot of monitors can't quite acheive 1280x1024...
but remember that the NeXT screen (on a real NeXT) is like 11??x8?? so as long  
as you can get at least that -- of course I'd prefer something like  
1200x1600...;-)

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