>What is the advantage of additional VRAM in the above computer? More
>resolution? More color?

The advantages of adding more VRAM is 2-fold. One aspect is that you 
can get the screen up to much higher resolutions (1024x768 @ 
Thousands of colours and higher IIRC). The other is that you can 
display video from the AV-IN ports on the machine whilst using the 
machine at higher resolutions (up to 823x624 @ 256 colours IIRC) . 
The reason for this is that the system for running the Computer and 
operating system is separate from the system that runs the AV-IN and 
AV-OUT ports and renders the video to screen. Therefore, at any one 
time, the VRAM is split into two segments, that being used to display 
the desktop and that being used to display the video input. This 
means the more VRAM the better. It makes out at 2MB taking 4 (60ns 
IIRC) 68-pin 256k SIMMs.

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