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Article #8791Re: Why no graphics in text mode?
From: Cliff C Heyer
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 15:06
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 15:06
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Thanks for all your comments. I'm one of those mainframe converts who has to learn that there are things you can do to save money. I assumed that FAST video memory was used for the entire screen, rather than just for the current scan line. But this would make the adaptor cost 10 times as much. Also, the AT bus is slow enough to make writing bit maps to the video adaptor slow. On (expensive) workstation platforms the bus has 10 times the bandwidth so this is not a problem. Cliff
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!fox!portal!cup.portal.com!cliffhanger From: cliffhanger@cup.portal.com (Cliff C Heyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Why no graphics in text mode? Message-ID: <26036@cup.portal.com> Date: 17 Jan 90 15:06:56 GMT References: <25820@cup.portal.com> <206900161@prism> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 13