Abstract: A display control system employing a character display mode. When a character code determining circuit determines, during a display period, that character code data read out from a character code data memory is a specified character code such as a space code, or when a raster address determining circuit determines that a raster address of character information displayed on a display device is a specified raster address, an address selector selects a CPU address in accordance with a selection signal output from a selector control circuit. Access to a font data memory is then performed in accordance with the selected CPU address.

Abstract: In a display apparatus comprising a plurality of memory planes, and a graphic display controller for writing data in and reading data from the memory planes, a logical operation circuit capable of performing logical operation in a plurality of different modes of operation is provided and is controlled to perform, in the mode latched in a mode registration circuit, logical operation on the data read from the memory planes. A selector selectively outputs data from one of the memory planes or data from the logical operation circuit.