Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:58:56 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers Message-ID: <99Feb1.144917est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au>
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Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote: >Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote: >>And I guess the ability to pull an Amiga and use a section of main >>memory as video memory, with a memory bus connector, instead of >>on-board video hardware. > >I'm not convinced that this is feasible nowadays. It had problems even in the Amiga - the `hi-res' modes [like 640x480x16 colour] used _all_ of the chip RAM bandwidth - the processor only got a look-in during retrace periods (assuming your audio and sprites weren't using all that). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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