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In article <1992Aug11.205954.6321@wam.umd.edu> dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) writes:
>bytor@milton.u.washington.edu writes:
>
>>This also allows for the double buffered area to be flipped faster,
>>since less of it will need to be displayed.
>
>But that displaying is done by the shifter hardware and monitor, so why
>would split screen mode make it faster?

I think what ByTor means is that the flipped portions are smaller, and
can be drawn faster (and thus flipped at a faster rate). You're right in
that it takes the same amount of time to flip a screen, no matter how
many scan lines the flipped portion covers. In all cases it's simply a
CPU write to a register which tells the VGA card where to begin fetching
bytes from the video buffer.