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    14-Jul-90  16:54:46
Sb: #5168-#GUI
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Frank Hogg 70310,317 (X)

Ummm. What it means is: the RAM requirements of the video chip far outweigh the
memory requirements of the software.

The video is always in "graphics" mode (there is no "ROM text" mode as on the
coco or IBM displays). Each screen will always take a little more than 64K of
ram, minimum.

So it depends on how many screens the person has open. With 3 screens open in
80x26 mode (a pretty common situation), that's about 200K used for video. The
driver needs will come from non-video ram... round that off as 20K just for
fun.

C programmers always need more RAM . I agree that many people will jump
to 2-3 meg both because of the low cost, and because of the relatively large
video ram requirements.

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