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From: csc@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Will the Real Amiga Please Stand Up?
Message-ID: <16266@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 11:04:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmath.16266
Posted: Sat Aug 24 11:04:07 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:26:15 EDT
References: <2965@sdcc3.UUCP>
Reply-To: csc@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: Amiga
Summary: 

In article <2965@sdcc3.UUCP> ee161bep@sdcc3.UUCP (Paul van de Graaf) writes:
>A hi-res 16 color interlaced screen
>mode takes up about 64k of memory, so there's room for 4 or 8 screens in a
>256k or 512k machine.

16 colours == 4 bits == 1/2 byte/pixel
640 x 400 pixels x 1/2 byte/pixel == 128000 bytes

....................................so there's room for 2 or 4 screens in a
256K or 512K machine.

Jan Gray