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- From: darren@mgl.ca (Darren Eveland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CV64 problems
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 00:45:14 GMT
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- Philip Chung (ee95pyc@brunel.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Benjamin Kenobi wrote:
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- : > 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.
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- : Ah well, I'll just have to stick with an 8-bit screen for the moment then, until
- : I can get another 4Mb. SIMM.
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- : > Oh, and if I'm not mistaken, its DRAM on the Cybervision. (Does this make
- : > it perform slower than if it had VRAM?)
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- : 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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- CyberVision 64 has DRAM. 70ns speed i believe. I WISH it was VRAM, but
- it isn't.
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- Darren
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