Comment by wruza
3 months 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.
3 months 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.
Thank you for the history lesson! :)