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It's an old idea, as old as at least CGA. Text modes used one byte for attributes, one byte for ascii. But it's still markup and compressing markup into binary
by wruza 2y ago
It's an old idea, as old as at least CGA. Text modes used one byte for attributes, one byte for ascii. But it's still markup and compressing markup into binary is a bad idea in the era of 48-bit address bus.
- keepamovin 2y agoThank you for the history lesson! :)