[Coco] Wordpak

Chuck Youse cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Mon Jul 14 20:15:25 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:51 +1000, Mark McDougall wrote:

> Anyone who has designed a 6845 text-based display that suffers from terribly 
> slow scrolling should not have any business designing hardware, IMHO! ;)
> 

Strangely enough, few driver writers use the origin registers to scroll
the display.  Even the PC/XT BIOS (and as a result, all following
generations of PC-compatible crap) ignores this obvious optimization.

C.






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