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Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by compsciphd on Saturday January 30, 2021 @04:08AM (#25967526)
a "vga" card with 8mb of ram was probably a svga card (24 * 640 * 480 is just under 8 mega). no real reason for it to need 8mb otherwise back then.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by Narishma on Saturday January 30, 2021 @08:45AM (#25969004)
That's less than 1 MB.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by compsciphd on Saturday January 30, 2021 @05:45PM (#25973788)
you're right, I multiplied it by 10 in my head. but even more so for OP. It wasn't a plain vga card.
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