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- From: Philip Chung <ee95pyc@brunel.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: CV64 problems
- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 12:04:51 +0000
- Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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- Benjamin Kenobi wrote:
-
- > As I understand it, there is a copy of each screen stored in FastRam. 800*
- > 600 bytes is about 2.4 meg or so so thats more than half of your FastRam
- > there. Probably not a bug. I have 14MB so I don't notice this as much on
- > my machine.
-
- Ah well, I'll just have to stick with an 8-bit screen for the moment then, until
- I can get another 4Mb. SIMM.
-
- > Oh, and if I'm not mistaken, its DRAM on the Cybervision. (Does this make
- > it perform slower than if it had VRAM?)
-
- I was told the CV64 had VRAM. I think for a board to be faster, it has to be
- designed to use VRAM. Not sure about this though, but genarally VRAM is faster.
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