Re: Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?

[Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid>]

I demand that Bill Vermillion may or may not have written...

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> On two of my first machines the video really didn't have a lot of
> processing.  There was a character generator chip and you wrote a character
> to a memory spot and it displayed on the screen.

I know exactly what you mean: the BBC micros had a teletext mode as well as
several pre-defined bitmapped modes - and, the display chip being a 6845,
some scope for custom modes.

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