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Re: Help ID Card: Giantek Chinese ROM Card?

Subject: Re: Help ID Card: Giantek Chinese ROM Card?
From: e-person@libero.it
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:39:41 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Self
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:18:23 +0100, Linards Ticmanis
<ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote:

>I don't know this beast, however lots of ROM surely sounds like a 
>Chinese character generator for sure. Maybe the Z80 is used to run an 
>oncard Input Method Editor, allowing you to type chinese from a standard 
>keyboard. The IME card would need lots of ROM too that contains the 
>possible spellings for a given sequence of phonetic input. Also IME 
>running in the Apple II main RAM would waste too much RAM by far.
>
>Just my ï¿½2.

In other words, a language card?

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