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To: zeugma
unless wiki is leading me astray

Amiga:

"The first platform to implement multiple desktop display as a hardware feature was Amiga 1000 in 1985."

"The Amiga500 released in 1987 supported multiple in memory screens displayed concurrently via the use of the Copper. The Copper was a simple processor whose operations waited for a screen position, wrote to hardware registers (including display memory fetch position), conditionally skipped an instruction, or performed No OPeration [NOP]."


8 posted on 10/12/2007 10:21:06 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: N3WBI3

It sucks that Gate’s mind-control ray was able to keep the Amiga from succeeding.


11 posted on 10/12/2007 11:46:25 AM PDT by zeugma (Ubuntu - Linux for human beings)
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