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From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: 4014 stuff
Message-ID: <2196@antique.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 19:14:05 GMT
References: <206300001@prism> <2007@rtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
Lines: 14
Summary: Write-through

In article <2007@rtech.UUCP> bobm@rtech.UUCP writes:
>Another interesting
>mode the storage tubes could be put into was a "write-through" mode in
>which your vectors would fade out in a fraction of a second.

I once wrote a pinball program that used a 4014 for the display.  The
ball and flippers were drawn using write-through mode.  This was
pretty cool; though there was the drawback that, whenever my program
got swapped out, the ball would disappear!  Unnerving, to say the least.

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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