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From: torkil@psivax.UUCP (Torkil Hammer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Where is the screen memory in a CGA 8088?
Message-ID: <3341@psivax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 90 01:05:48 GMT
References: <517@ohs.UUCP> <25FA99BD.29545@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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In article <25FA99BD.29545@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
#In article <517@ohs.UUCP> bhan@ohs.UUCP (Bruce Hansen) writes:
#$The subject pretty much tells it all.  I want to be able to poke()
#$a character right into the screen memory so it will show up on the
#$screen as soon as it is poked.  I read in an Al Stevens book that this
#$memory starts at b800 for an 8086, but, as that location
#$does not work for me, I assume it is different for the 8088.
#
#   Regardless of processor type, CGA memory starts at b800.  Note that

Watch out.  I think it is b8000 or something like that, not b800.