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In article <23699@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
> The 8 meg expansion address space of the Amiga is too precious  to
> devote a meg or more of it to "just" a frame buffer.

I don't know about that. Every A2000 already has a megabyte allocated to
pretty much that very purpose. If you're going to shove more than a few megs
of RAM into your 2000 you're likely to be running a 68020 or so and have
almost 2 gig of RAM-only address space available on your CPU card.

(yes, I know that most 68020 cards don't take advantage of >16M memory, but
 it's in the CPU's address space and should be used. The only problem with it
 is that you can't access it from the Zorro bus so you can't DMA to it, but
 that's a SMOP.)

I'd think that paged I/O cards would be a bit of a pain for any hypothectical
future device-independent graphics.library, too. Another reason to go to a
flat address space, no?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.