Chapter 24. Display Systems
Seeing is believing. If you couldn't see the results of your calculations or language manipulations, the personal computer would be worthless as a tool. You need some way of viewing the output of the computer system to know what it has done and why you're wasting your time feeding it data.
Out of all potential technologies for giving you feedback about what your computer is doing, the one almost universal choice is the one you see on your screen. But it's what goes on behind the screen that really counts. The screen just shows you the results of a lot of technologies and systems working together.
The total entity made from these technologies is your computer's display system. At the hardware level, it comprises two ...
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