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Re: Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?

Subject: Re: Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?
From: kerpan@attglobal.net
Date: 26 Dec 2005 13:42:08 -0800
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>The fact that the 65xx was cheaper than the z80 which allowed the
>companies to spend more money on the graphics actually does show that
>the cpu (the cost of it) did influence the display in a small way.

That could be something... But then again, the Sega Master System had
better color graphics capabilities than the NES, yet the SMS had a Z80
and the NES had (a rather fast) 6502 clone. So no, I don't think CPU
really influenced display type.

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