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Date:      Thu, 28 Dec 1995 15:12:27 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        marc@immersive.com
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Laptops?
Message-ID:  <199512280442.PAA01086@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199512280225.SAA15762@blob.best.net> from "Marc de Groot" at Dec 27, 95 06:25:26 pm

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Marc de Groot stands accused of saying:
> 
> > > Active matrix SVGA -- with PCI bus.  Must be fast!
> > 
> > You sure you want a laptop with a PCI bus (not that I've ever seen one)?
> > What will you plug into it? :-)
> > 
> This is a PCI bus without a slot, and it's for the processor-to-VGA data path.

So probably not a real PCI bus at all, but just a direct mapping of the
display into the processor address space, somewhat like what used to be
called "VLB video" back when VLB was all the rage.

>    Marc de Groot      |  Immersive Systems, Inc. 

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