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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Silver (was Re: Amiga 2000 has been swapped)
Message-ID: <2572@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 28 Aug 88 12:45:33 GMT
References: <2@orbit.UUCP> <6908@well.UUCP> <786@applix.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <786@applix.UUCP>, scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:
> The standard VGA measures 640 x 480, or less than 40k.  It is true that
> there are multiple bit planes, but they all live at the same address.
> To read from an individual plane, you tell a register which one you want and
> read.

This is, of course, bank selecting. Which is about the only thing worse
than an intel segmented architecture (which amounts to bank selecting on
chip).

You'd do better with segments.
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