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- From: watt@parka.winternet.com (Bacon Runner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: a1200 graphics card.
- Date: 7 Mar 96 01:23:22 GMT
- Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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- mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell) writes:
-
- >Aldo Hoeben (io342042@student.io.tudelft.nl) wrote:
-
- >: Or, alternatively, something that would plug into the PCMCIA-socket. Is
- >: this possible?
-
- >This seems rather unlikely to me since PCMCIA is only a 16-bit bus.
- >Todays graphics cards are at least 32-bit, and usually 64- or even
- >128-bit. It's seems like it would be pretty limited in it's
- >usefullness.
-
- That figure refers to the memory path on the card. A 128-bit graphics
- card still plugs into a 32-bit PCI slot and communicates with the system
- in 32 bits. The graphics chipset on the card communicates with its RAM in
- 128 bits.
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- Andy Wattenhofer
- watt@winternet.com
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