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- From: glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew)
- Subject: Re: Request Info Re Bus Trends & Intel 486s
- In-Reply-To: john@theus.rain.com's message of Tue, 21 Jul 1992 00:19:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <GLEW.92Jul23192755@pdx007.intel.com>
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- Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
- References: <rjmartin.711191773@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1992Jul20.003506.23290@theus.rain.com>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:27:55 GMT
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- >>[Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz]
- >>Can you explain which *desktop* applications need peer-to-peer communication ?
- >>I.e. what is wrong with going through main memory ?
- >
- >[John Theus]
- >To use today's favorite buzz word: multimedia.
- >
- >If I want to do HDTV in a window that comes in from a disk or some outside hose,
- >why burden main memory with something it doesn't need to be involved in. Plus
- >the added complexity of scheduling it so you don't miss the frame rate
- >requirements.
-
- First you'll put video on your screen.
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- Then you'll want special effects: things like zooming in on a
- particular speaker (or the papers on his desk) in a video conference,
- things like cropping speakers from different video inputs and
- superimposing them into a virtual conference room.
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- I'm not sure what effects will be most popular, but I am sure that the
- effects will be used, if systems can provide them.
-
- And the wheel will keep on turning:
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- Nonstandard video on coprocessors.
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- Standard software video on the CPU.
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- Coprocessors to accelerate the video standards.
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- New features and special effects added that will only run on
- non-standard video coprocessors.
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- Standard special effects in software only on standard CPUs.
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- Coprocessors to accelerate the standard video special effects.
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- ...
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