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by Fnoord 2441 days ago
Weren't (the) BMPs large in size?
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oblio 2441 days ago
I'm pretty sure that even at that time compressed formats were used :-)

JPG was released in 1992, GIF in 1987.

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Fnoord 2440 days ago
These were used, yes. I am pretty sure Windows in most of 90s used BMPs, e.g. for backgrounds and in MS Paint. [1] Also, GIF is no replacement for BMP.

[1] https://www.fileformat.info/format/bmp/egff.htm

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