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Article #22758Re: Will DMA ever be used in the Mac?
From: Gregory Dudek
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1987 17:12
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1987 17:12
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In article <5094@iuvax.UUCP> viking@iuvax.UUCP (Jon W. Backstrom) writes:
>
>2) Screen I/O is also managed by the CPU. I dream of the day that Apple or
> someone (RasterOps?) develops a video card with a graphics co-processor.
> This is made more difficult by the need to run the quickdraw routines, but
> maybe somebody can do it! (Apple, are you listening?)
>
I believe I've read that a graphics co-processor card (using the
TI chip??) should be available within the next 6 months or so. I
thought I saw it in a recent Macintosh Today.
BTW, I think MacIntosh Today is being very even handed by publishing
articles critical of Mac architecture as well as positive stuff. I
was really getting sick of the lopsided hype-boosterism typical of so
many magazines (like MacWorld).
Gregory Dudek
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utai!dudek From: dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Will DMA ever be used in the Mac? Message-ID: <4188@utai.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 87 17:12:12 GMT References: <5094@iuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: dudek@ai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 19 Keywords: hardware, mac