screen memory
Noun
Meaning
an imagined memory of a childhood experience; hides another memory of distressing significance
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The most common VGA graphics mode's screen memory fit into a single memory segment.
Each manufacturer developed their own methods of accessing the screen memory, even going so far as not to number the modes consistently.
Such art can be loaded into screen memory directly.
The Acorn Electron did not have this extra hardware and had to alter screen memory in software to blink the cursor.
The graphics screen memory was separate from the usual character screen, and the two could be displayed together or separately.
This model used 8 64kbit RAMs enabling the screen memory to be overlayed with the BASIC and OS ROMs in the processor memory map.