30 Jan
2008
30 Jan
'08
11 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Of MDA, yes, but this was "monochrome CGA" which was supposed to display
16 different shades of green, ie. behave like CGA and not MDA. That's
why I listed it as an oddity.
RE: The Sirius, a PCM chip in an early clone is pretty forward-thinking!
Shame that never took off.
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That was also
an issue with the AT&T PC 6300/Olivetti M24 if you were
using a monochrome monitor. It was monochrome CGA, but the monitor
would do things like _underline_ the text based on the attribute.
That, IIRC, is what a real _MDA_ card does.