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Texas Instruments TMS9918A VDP

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Texas Instruments TMS9918A VDP

The video display processor required by the first MSX standard.

Manufacturer: Texas Instruments
Architecture: Video display processor
Introduced: 1979
Record status: provisional

Fitted to

MSX Home computer · 1983

Sources

MSX Technical Data Book ASCII Corporation · tier B · Internet Archive item record and front matter

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