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20 January 2025

  • curprev 16:5716:57, 20 January 2025‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 2,152 bytes +39‎ No edit summary
  • curprev 16:0816:08, 20 January 2025‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ 2,113 bytes +2,113‎ Created page with "<!-- Once upon a time, framebuffers were not a thing. A megabyte of memory just to keep an image, what, are you made of money? You just output the pixel you need to output at the right time, it's fine. Doing that from the CPU is a crazy exercise in timing, and would be inefficient and that. Instead, the thing that outputs the video signal would be doing the drawing. What it would be prepared to do for you also defined how could it could look. Due to the nature of..."
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