[stella] video memory

Subject: [stella] video memory
From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:10:09 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Piero Cavina wrote:
> Now it seems stranger to me why the 2600 has no video memory at all. I
> thought it was because at the time it was too expensive...

O"2 wasn't unique.  The Astrocade had 4K of internal RAM. 

Whether a company thought it was too expensive was a matter of individual
opinion.  Noone knew what the sweet price point would be for a game
console. 



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