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Article #3381Re: Video Board -- need references
From: Wm E Davidsen Jr
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 13:35
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 13:35
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In article <4271@brazos.Rice.edu> carson@rice.edu (Jim Carson) writes:
| o The video card should also interface to the keyboard and pointing
| devices.
This strikes me as a particularly non-modular thing to do... at least
if you meant that these devices should go through the video board to get
to the CPU. I realize this is a project rather than a product, but it
still seems strange unless there will be some direct interraction
without using the CPU.
--
bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Video Board -- need references Keywords: Video, IEEE Futurebus, BitBlt Message-ID: <2018@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 16 Jan 90 13:35:53 GMT References: <4271@brazos.Rice.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 13