> But no modern programmer would ever come up with the solution of addressing x and y positions by setting timers to wake at the times when the point in the sca

> But no modern programmer would ever come up with the solution of addressing x and y positions by setting timers to wake at the times when the point in the scan-line or the scan-line in the frame was reached I would say it’s only fairly recently we stopped needing to do this - when we moved to graphics mode operation systems (oh god I say fairly recently but thinking now it’s probably close to 30 years ago yikes). I’m thinking Garmin app developer may still need to do it