> Afaik Commodore Akiko chip was so braindead it took chunky data in and translated that into multiple planar writes to ram killing any potential speed advantag

> Afaik Commodore Akiko chip was so braindead it took chunky data in and translated that into multiple planar writes to ram killing any potential speed advantage. Even worse than that it didn't write them to ram - you had to read the planar data out of the registers and write them to ram yourself