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Revision as of 13:47, 27 February 2024

A frame buffer is a digital hardware device which implements a memory — separate from the main memory — dedicated to a raster graphics display, and possibly some off-screen graphics. A few very early experiments used core memory or magnetic disk storage, but decent resolution graphics only became feasible with semiconductor RAM.