On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
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> (the WCS - Writeable Control Store I mentioned), so you can redefine the
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> Unlike just about every other machine of that time, there is no text
> mode. However, the designers wanted it to be as fast at displaying text
> as machines with said hardware text mode, so they designed a 'raster op
> machine' - what we'd now call a blitter - to handle screen updates.
Sounds like an Amiga 1000. ;) ;) ;)
> -tony
Doug Spence
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Received on Sat Aug 15 1998 - 23:41:10 BST