Date   : Mon, 07 Jan 1991 22:06:02 GMT
From   : autodesk!catnip!bandy@apple.com (Gun Control is Hitting Your Target)
Subject: Need WordStar utility

wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:


> Aha! Some versions of WordStar supported direct write to screen
>memory on the (few) machines that had screen memory as part of
>system RAM. I suspect that setting the high bit is the way the
>Osborne knew to highlight the current character.

Yes and no.  

No, WordStar for the Osborne 1 did not come configured for memory mapped
video - I don't know why - it's orders of magnitude faster than going through
a jillion layers of software.

Yes, you could set the underline attribute by or'ing with 0x80.
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