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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Difficulty in programming
Message-ID: <20990@estelle.udel.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 90 16:17:43 GMT
References: <2487@zipeecs.umich.edu> <1990Jun2.063414.10292@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <1990Jun2.063414.10292@agate.berkeley.edu> laba-1ei@e260-2f (Joseph Chung) writes:
>In an IBM (no flames please!), if I want to put a character anywhere on the
>screen, I just
>1. load a segment register with the segment of the screen.
>2. write the proper byte to the screen location (using a simple offset) (In
>short, is a basic POKE command!)

Uh huh.  And what exactly is the segment register for the screen?
Last I looked, even the two original available screens (CGA and Monochrome)
did not have the same base segment for the screen memory.  Lets take
a different example: wait five seconds on any computer running MS-dos.
		   -- Darren