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From: rcbaem@rwa.urc.tue.nl (pooh 'Ernst' Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: MODE 21 & MULTISYNC
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Date: 6 Jan 91 23:41:36 GMT
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In <1664@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> rcpieter@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr) writes:
>What a nonsense.

[ looots of stuff deleted :]

>Then pooh drops by and suggests this is done on purpose by the floppy
>reading routine.  Hohum, reminds me of the good ol' Electron :-)

No, Tiggr, WRONG! I didn't say it _is_ done, I merely suggested it _might_
be done on purpose by the floppy reading routine. Sowing a 220K screen takes
a lot of bus bandwidth, and so does reading from a floppy device the way
the Archimedes does it. Thus it wouldn't seem unlogical to turn the screen
off when it's big and you want to read from a floppy device. It might also
be done by the video controller itself. Then again what do I know, I've only
got a Mac with a 512x342 monochrome screen... :))

>Tiggr

pooh