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Article #7546Re: Simple Frame Buffer boards
From: Dave Haynie
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 1990 13:53
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 1990 13:53
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In article <90345.181101L98CC@CUNYVM.BITNET> L98CC@CUNYVM writes:
>In article <920@boing.UUCP>, dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) says:
>>IMHO the benefits of a complete memory mapped frame buffer far outweigh
>>the costs giving up 1-2M of address space on the bus. The benefits of
> *******************************
>1) I am willing to give up 2 meg space but not expansion ram space.
>3) I do not want to violate any hardware design rule set by CBM. ( i.e.
> do not use reserved address space etc.. )
These two desires are at odds with one another. The only memory mapped
hardware supported is autoconfiguring hardware. There is 8.5 meg of space
open for this, 8 of which is contiguous and many folks use for expansion
RAM. If you want a memory mapped frame buffer that takes up 2 meg for it's
mapped memory, that leaves 6 meg of space for other things, including
expansion RAM. There is no other memory available on a 68000 system.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Simple Frame Buffer boards Message-ID: <16625@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 18 Dec 90 13:53:23 GMT References: <916@boing.UUCP> <23699@grebyn.com> <918@boing.UUCP> <1411@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <920@boing.UUCP> <90345.181101L98CC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 22