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Article #23553Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon
From: ted croft brown
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:35
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:35
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In article <C1Hnxn.nJ@ecf.toronto.edu> giggey@ecf.toronto.edu (GIGGEY Mike S) writes: >Whats so different about the Falcon doing this for graphics when all data >bus transfers on the PC are done at 16 bits and depending on your setup at >8 bits. Not only that, the data transfer speeds are limited on the PC >further slowing down graphics speed. Plus the PC doesn't have a blitter. > 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, if the info I just read off of ibm.pc.hardware is true, then using an IDE harddrive is useless as they all have controllers timeed to 8Mhz and have to be reworked to work with Local Bus. (One person called Maxtor and they hadn't started yet!) Unfortuantly I think there are Fast SCSI II Local Bus Cards.... Of course we are talking a significant $$ over the Falcon here! -- Ted Brown tbrown@cis.ohio-state.edu tbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!bounce-bounce From: tbrown@cis.ohio-state.edu (ted croft brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon Message-ID: <1k56veINNpf7@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 26 Jan 93 19:35:41 GMT Article-I.D.: tortoise.1k56veINNpf7 References: <1993Jan22.162113.13989@bsu-ucs> <1993Jan25.112726.11738@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <C1Hnxn.nJ@ecf.toronto.edu> Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu