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Re: Follow-up: 6502 deaths?



In article <39DC4B35.759CEF9@ien.it>, Sabino Maggi  <maggi@ien.it> wrote:
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}What is strange to me now is that the screen shown by second A2, that
}now houses the dead 6502, is quite different (many different characters
}in random positions) from what I previously observed on the original
}machine, where I had alternate rows "@"s and "!"s. 
}Any idea? 
}The only thing that comes to my mind is related to different
}initialization of the video RAM.

That screen is simply the stuff in video ram at power up.  The actual
pattern depends on the internal details of the specific RAM chips used.
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