A liquid crystal display with a direction control electrode and a pixel electrode forming a capacitance in a pixel regions is disclosed. % of solid matter insoluble in boiling cyclohexane under reflux for 60 min. When byteoutbytein processing occurs, the values of a code register C and a free byte counter CT that are immediately before the occurrence of processing are found. The device may be used in laser amplification systems to combine lower power pump light beams into a single, higher power pump light beam. Memory arrays may be organized according to the invention in a number of different distributed or lumped arrangements with the reference read paths and sense blocks being either shared or dedicated.