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In article <1k63fcINNovo@falcon.natinst.com> glens@natinst.com (Glen Sescila) writes:
>In article <1k56veINNpf7@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu> tbrown@cis.ohio-state.edu (ted croft brown) writes:
>>
>>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.


Yes that's true.  You can't take advantage of a feature unless you can be
assured it's there (which is a deadly assumption when it's Local Bus (of
some time, they aren't all the same) and an PC).  But it will affect the
users perception of GUI use (windows, OS/2, NeXTStep 486).

As I said a similar problem seem to crop up using IDE harddrives.  They 
never expected to run them off a bus faster than 8Mhz so never designed them
to handle more than that.

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Ted Brown		tbrown@cis.ohio-state.edu
			tbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu