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On Sat, 3 Feb 1996, Sujal Patel wrote:
> > a frame.  This is unnoticeable while doing single frame captures,  but
> > completely sucks when doing movies.
> Yeah, this really bites.  If only they wired up the ACK line, and sent an 
> interrupt when it was ready to send some data.

Hell, get a few of the people on hackers to look at this, maybe they
would add a framebuffer for the QC to their "FreeBSD gadget". :)
Conceptually, it would look to be a straightforward hardware device.


Have fun.

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