Re: VRAM requirements

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From: Paul Durrant
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 00:00

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In article <1d5w6bs.1pn8oi1ya6e68N@grnfield.u-net.com>,
matti@grnfield.u-net.com (Matthew Greenfield) wrote:

> If I want a 'millions of colours' on a 17 inch monitor at 1024 x 768,
> 75Hz how much VRAM would I need. I'm thinking of a G3....

Millions of colours is 24-bit colour, actually uses 32-bits per pixel on
the Mac, so that's 4 bytes per pixel. 1024 is a nice round binary number,
so each row of that monitor will take 4KB. 768 is 3/4 of 1024, so the whole
screen will take 3MB of VRAM.

Paul Durrant

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