21 Oct
2008
21 Oct
'08
11:44 a.m.
>vector representation and *that* is sent to the
monitor. Monitors
>don't eat characters as input.
Depends on how you define 'monitor' I have a classic computer where the
box that most people would call the 'monitor' (in that it contains the
CRT and stacks on top of the part that has the keyboard, cartridge tape
drives, printer, inteface slots, etc) contains a fair amoumt of digital
logic. Including a graphics processor/memory and the character
generator/atribute logic for the text mode display (the video mmeory and
line buffer are in the main part of the machine). The machine? An HP9845B
But I will agree that no _CRT_ (apart from charactrons and closely
related devices) accept characters directly
-tony