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- From: David Gentry <dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Pl
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 20:57:18 GMT
- Organization: Racal-Datacom
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- tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen) wrote:
- >
- >(Jyrki Saarinen)
- >
- >>> Yes it does, see TextDemo. The percentage of CPU time used for the C2P
- >>> is NON-EXISTANT on the clones, because the 'fast-ram buffer' we use on
- >>> Amiga is called 'the screen' on the clones. No extra copying (or
- >>>áconverting for that matter) needed.
- >
- >>No copying? In 13h? How the hell you would be dbuffering otherwise?
- >
- >Tweak mode? OK, OK.. It isn't mode $13 anymore, but hey... :)
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- Wait a second... I thought mode 13h was a VGA mode. What are you guys
- thinking?
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- D. G.
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