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- From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:46:21 GMT
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- jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org wrote:
- >:
- >: He's talking HARDWARE. The Amiga hardware allows for true, multiple
- >: screens, in a way thats different from any computer I have ever seen.
- >:
- >Yeah, yeah. The Atari 400 could do similar things, although, of course, it
- >didn't have a multitasking OS to take advantage of it. The video display
- >was constructed from a list of instructions, each of which could specify
- >the resolution and pixel data address of a single line of graphics (or text).
- >Add horizontal blank interrupts, and you can modify the palette after each
- >scan line. Interesting, but really nothing new.
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-
- And interestingly enough, the original Amiga custom chipset was
- designed by some of the same folks who built the Atari...
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- --
- Don Lloyd / "No, I just think that a computer grafted on top of \
- don@chopin.udel.edu | another computer is a kludge. It has nothing to do |
- GeNIE: D.LLOYD7 \ with the Intel CPU" - Jerry Shekhel /
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