[Coco] Wordpak
Chuck Youse
cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Mon Jul 14 20:15:25 EDT 2008
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:51 +1000, Mark McDougall wrote:
> Anyone who has designed a 6845 text-based display that suffers from terribly
> slow scrolling should not have any business designing hardware, IMHO! ;)
>
Strangely enough, few driver writers use the origin registers to scroll
the display. Even the PC/XT BIOS (and as a result, all following
generations of PC-compatible crap) ignores this obvious optimization.
C.
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