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Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon

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From: Glen Sescila
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:42
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In article <1k56veINNpf7@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu> tbrown@cis.ohio-state.edu (ted croft brown) writes:
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>This is not true for some Local Bus machines.  The Local Bus is wide enough
>to support a graphics card with enough bus leftover to snarf stuff off the
>harddrive at amazing speeds.

	But software (games) can't really be written to use local bus video.
The software (games) vendors need to target the largest maket which is still
(and probably will be for a very long time) video on the ISA bus.  I know
local bus video is software transparent to VGA but the games will be 'timed'
for VGA on the ISA.
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Subject: Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon
Date: 27 Jan 1993 07:42:04 -0600
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