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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Planar!
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 11:45:31 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- innuendo@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Jonathan Gapen) writes:
-
- >Workbench in an 8 bit chunky mode on my CV64 card, and for that, chunky rules,
- >since the software doesn't have to do 8 single bit writes to memory to update
- >a single pixel.
-
- It hardly does 8 single bit writes to memory to update a single pixel
- as it hardly updates single pixels and this operation even requires
- more overhead than 8 writes to memory.
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- Michael van Elst
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