[Coco] Wordpak

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Mon Jul 14 17:56:24 EDT 2008


Chuck Youse wrote:


> Wow. Sounds like a serious flaw in implementation (hardware or

> software). No way a 6845-based display needs to be that slow, doesn't

> matter if you're latching addresses to write characters to the screen -

> three memory stores instead of one, slower by a factor of three but

> certainly shouldn't be noticed by a human..


Yeeow!! I'd also be very interested to know exactly how they managed to make
it so slow - must've taken some doing! ;)

Regards,

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