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   From: merkerk@deadspam.com   
      
   Mike Wynne wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Just take a look at the schematics of the first Commodore PET 2001.   
   There are probably more examples, but this is first one I could think of.   
      
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