CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (2015)
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HN comment orderThe other day I was explaining the inner workings of a PC to my son as we were upgrading his computer. I wasn't sure what SATA stood for, so I looked it up: "Serial ATA", a successor to "Parallel ATA". So, OK, what's ATA? "AT Attachment". Great, so what's AT? This actually took a few clicks. Sure enough, it's "Advanced Technology" and comes from the IBM PC/AT released in 1984. Maybe that's obvious, but for some reason that tickled me…
This is about the "8088 MPH" demo for an original IBM PC ( previously in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338944 ) Then "succeeded" by "Area 5150" past year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32394195
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-08 | CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (2015)First breakout · Best thread | mariuz | 281 | 69 |
| 2022-01-06 | CGA in 1024 Colors (2015) | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-01-02 | CGA in 1024 colors – a new mode (2015)Latest 20+ point return | tomduncalf | 125 | 34 |