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by colejohnson66 976 days ago
Regardless of framebuffering and all that nonsense, at the end of the day, pixels have to be pushed onto the physical display, bit-by-bit. I've wondered if it would be possible for a screen to simulate CRT-style line drawing by exploiting that.

So, if the multiplexing is done line-by-line, for example, then one could simulate a CRT by driving the pixels directly, without a framebuffer. It wouldn't be easy, but that's partly why framebuffers are a thing - they're easier than not having one.