Richard Erlacher wrote:
> With the COCO, you're better off starting from a wirewrap panel and a bucket
> of parts, since the video on the COCO is not "up to snuff," i.e. 80x24
> characters-capable. It uses that ridiculous 6847, IIRC, and even at 32
> characters (or was it 40), it's pretty shabby. The other RS stuff wasn't much
> better with its unconventional 64x16. They foisted that ridiculous format off
> on the public to save a buck on display ram. <sigh>
Nope -- the original coco was 4 or 16 K of ram. The PC had a real
display (monochrome).
The CGA was a piece of crap!
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 22:17:52 BST