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title: "Seeing is Believing"
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excerpt: "You sit down, switch on your QL and patiently wait for the start-up prompt to appear on the screen… how easily we take for granted that a computer can display pictures an a monitor. Would you ever think that a complex process is performed by about 30% of the hardware in your computer just to…"
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authors: "Zeljko Nastasic"
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# Seeing is Believing

You sit down, switch on your QL and patiently wait for the start-up prompt to appear on the screen… how easily we take for granted that a computer can display pictures an a monitor. Would you ever think that a complex process is performed by about 30% of the hardware in your computer just to make it possible to see anything on the screen of your monitor, and no less than SO times a second at that!