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Patent
CA 1169594
Display Refresh Memory With Variable Line Start Addressing Abstract A display refresh system wherein a RAM refresh buffer is tightly packed. Line start addresses in the buffer are determined by the line length such as eighty characters. With each of the lines in the refresh buffer being normally a binary number such as 128 characters in length the line start addresses are such that they do not coincide with the beginning of each line in the buffer. To assure packing they are inter- spersed each 80 positions sequentially within the buffer. A processor loads the address of each line start charac- ter into the pointer area of the refresh buffer. A line counter is used which counts the lines being displayed on the display. The RAM refresh buffer which contains the line start addresses and character data is first addressed by the line counter output to provide the line address. Since the refresh buffer is used as the line pointer register the output bus for pointer data and character data is common. Once the address of the first character in a line is read from the pointer area in the refresh buffer it is loaded into the refresh buffer address counter which then controls the sequential reading of characters in that line from the refresh buffer onto the data bus. Following the reading of each line the sequence is repeated, e. g., the line counter is incremented, its' count used to address the pointer register and the address contained in the pointer re- gister loaded into the refresh buffer address counter. T9-80-010
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International Business Machines Corporation
Kerr Alexander
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