The interface to the bog standard LCD display can use either 8 or 4 bits parallel, which only changes the number of outs you need to do to fill the line buffer, which has an 8 bit byte for each character The 8 bit character ROM often has fascinating character sets in the high half depending on where the surplus came from.
-- rec -- On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Sarbajit - > > Can you elaborate? I think this one just flew past me... 2 lines of 16 > characters with only 4 bit indexing (alphabet of 16 characters?)... This > sounds like (much) more than a digital watch (do those even exist anymore?) > or even a calculator (only 1 line?). > > I feel like you handed us a riddle like the sphynx! > > I tried a massive, brooding, indifferent posture to Dougs posts on this > one, but I could only hold the pose for a few seconds before breaking into > a belly laugh appropriate only for the Buddha or Santa Claus. > > - Steve > > Just to update fellow FRIAMers. > > The most common standard display device in the world today is the 16x2 > character LCD display. The vast majority of installations use it in 4 bit > mode. > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > >> As a courtesy to our old-fashioned (to put it politely) FRIAM list >> members who are still reading email on their TRS-80 ascii terminals, I will >> supply a synopses of the material contained in that new-fangled url thingie >> below: the article discusses a massive, indifferent, brooding silence. >> >> You're welcome. >> >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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