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In article <26775@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>
>That is absolutely horrid.  So all my Windows applications means that while
>this here card is installed, I will be moving at HALF SPEED?!  This doesn't
>seem very realistically cool, know what I mean?  Is there a way around
>this?  I can't afford that kind of io bottleneck (33mhz w/8MB going through
>display at 8-bits is not very fun).....any info to circumvent said
>atrocity would be appreciated.
>
>Brian

It's really nothing to worry about.  16-bit mode is only useful for 
character displays and linear fills/xors.  Otherwise you're spending 
all of your time doing 8-bit access to the i/o ports and 8-bit 
accesses to the one byte of video RAM you're changing before you have
to go back to the i/o and do it ALL over again.

(note that this is based on use of the 640xXXXx16 modes.  if there
is a way around this generally available, at least to windows drivers,
please let me know)

Regards,

 -Tom
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