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Subject: RE: Drawing modes
From: Greg Haerr
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:18:34 -0600

On Wednesday, May 19, 1999 5:21 PM, Ben Pfaff [SMTP:pfaffben@msu.edu] wrote:
> Greg Haerr <greg@Censoft.com> writes:
> 
> 	   I'm talking about the planar modes, which are a pain in the ass.
>    I thought you were working on the vga16 driver, which uses the planar modes.
>    In the planar mode, the hardware is setup the way I've been describing.
> 
> Yeah, but you still need two memory accesses, one to load the latches,
> one to store them.  If you've got a fun magic way to avoid this, let
> us know!

	No, thats why the |= operator works so well, it generates a read followed
by a write bus cycle...



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