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   From: mikeywyn@hotmail.com   
      
   "Sam Gillett" wrote...   
   > "Lyrical Nanoha" wrote ...   
   >>>> Of course it is possible to have 40 (or say 80) chars per line and   
   >>>> still have linear addressing, like in   
   >>> Atari?   
   >> Commodore PET/CBM, 64 and Plus/4?  All of them had linear addressable   
   >> 40x25   
   >> text mode.   
   > I started to point that out several times, but thought I would wait to see   
   > how long it took for someone else to do it.    ;-)    Thanks for restoring   
   > my   
   > faith in Commodore users!    :-)   
      
   But you guys missed out the important part of the original quote:   
      
   "Of course it is possible to have 40 (or say 80) chars per line and still   
   have linear addressing, like in a VGA card, *but that requires a lot more   
   hardware.*"   
      
   In the case of the C16/+4 a custom TED Chip, the C64 uses the custom VIC-II,   
   the Atari it's custom Antic chip.  Try designing a video circuit in discrete   
   logic (Like the Apple II) then tell me how much more hardware is required to   
   obtain a linear 40 or 80 column mode.   
      
   MikeW   
      
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