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		MBCook 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the original Macintosh had a screen resolution... Plus those weren’t raw bitmaps but tile based to help keep memory and bandwidth costs down.

s800 5 months ago [–]

Not sure we're thinking the same way, but the C64 and Atari had bitmap modes, not just tile or character modes.

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