See my <**> comments, below.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(high performance, high function, low-level code)

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Warren <fastfwd@IX.NETCOM.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Would you like free RAM with that LCD?

>
> Bob:
>
> Similarly, Hitachi-controller alphanumeric LCDs contain 64 bytes of
> "character-generator" RAM and (usually) more "data" RAM than is

<**> Duh.. I knew about the chargen RAM, don't know why I didn't think about
it.

> needed by the display.  It's easy -- although slow -- to access that
> RAM, and at least one C compiler can access it transparently, as
> though it were built into the PIC.

<**> Transparent access by the C compiler - truly awesome!

> -Andy
>
>
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