15 Aug
1998
15 Aug
'98
11:41 p.m.
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
<snip>
(the WCS - Writeable Control Store I mentioned), so
you can redefine the
<snip>
Unlike just about every other machine of that time,
there is no text
mode. However, the designers wanted it to be as fast at displaying text
as machines with said hardware text mode, so they designed a 'raster op
machine' - what we'd now call a blitter - to handle screen updates.
Sounds like an Amiga 1000. ;) ;) ;)
-tony
Doug Spence
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http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/