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The Thomson MO6 was a Motorola 6809E -based computer introduced in France in 1986. It was intended as the successor to the Thomson MO5 and featured 128 KB of RAM , a 40 × 25 text display, and a new built-in Microsoft BASIC interpreter ( BASIC 128 ). It retained compatibility with its predecessor, while incorporating the same technology as the TO8 .

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4-624: Graphic abilities were expanded compared to the MO5, by the use of the Thomson EF9369 graphics chip. The 16 colour palette could be defined from a total of 4096 colours and extra video modes were available: In Italy it was sold by Olivetti with minor aesthetic changes, and named Olivetti Prodest PC128 . Twenty-one games were released for the MO6. The machine was available until January 1989. This microcomputer - or microprocessor -related article

8-433: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Thomson EF9369 The Thomson EF936x series is a type of Graphic Display Processor (GDP) by Thomson-EFCIS . The chip could draw at 1 million pixels per second, which was relatively advanced for the time of its release (1982 or earlier). There are various versions of the chip with slightly different capabilities. The first version, EF9364 CRT Processor,

12-695: Was introduced in 1981. In 1982 Commodore released a "High Resolution Graphics" board for the PET based on the EF9365 and EF9366 chips, allowing it to display 512 × 512 or 512 × 256 resolution graphics. The EF9366 was also used on the SMP-E353 graphic card for the Siemens SICOMP  [ de ] computer series and on the NDR-Klein-Computer introduced in 1984. Version EF9369 , introduced in 1984,

16-648: Was used on computers such as the Thomson MO5NR , MO6 , TO8 , TO9 and TO9+ , and from 1985 to 1989 on the DAI Personal Computer . Based on the 1989 data book published by the company, the EF936x series was split into Graphics Controllers and Color Palette models: The GPUs did not support direct access to the graphics memory, although a special command was provided to aid in implementing access to individual memory words. The Thomson EF9365/6 used

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