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Old 12-23-2011, 07:28 PM  
raymor
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Originally Posted by mikesouth View Post
my first job in computers was with a company called Chromatics we sold a Z80 based CG workstation (512x512x4 bit planes) for 100K

It maxed at 32K of memory and only accomplished that by using hardware memory mapping
(do the math 4 bit planes) = 128K the max addressable by an 8 bit address bus

It ran an OS stored on EPROM that was similar to CPM.

Damn I am old....

I learned programming on an Apple IIe, but yes, you're damn old.
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