Inspired by an offhand comment Alice (@foone) made earlier today: the CGA iceberg
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And on the Amstrad PC1512/1640 there were 4 writable colour planes in 640x200 mode (RGBI) that you could selectively write enable with a plane register. By default all planes, which were all in the same CGI Mono memory space, were enabled for black & white. Oh yes. Writing graphics drivers was super fun back then.
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