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- From: fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei)
- Subject: Chip RAM Accelerator?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.191056.29476@athena.mit.edu>
- Keywords: Black Knight
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:10:56 GMT
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- I just noticed a small ad in the November issue of Amiga World (p. 50).
- Black Knight Peripherals claims that they have a product which can
- significantly speed up access to Chip RAM:
-
- "The Fast Lane Chip RAM acclerator & 2Mb chip ram expansion removes the
- biggest bottleneck in the Amiga - slow access to chip RAM. TFL gives super-
- fast access to display memory by allowing the CPU & custom chips to access
- chip ram transparently and simultaneously. Works with 1 & 2Mb Agnus chips.
- With TFL unaccelerated machines can access display ram at the same speed as
- fast RAM. Acclerated Amiga willl have up to 3 times this bandwidth (depending
- on how they access the Amiga address space) The Speed Demon CPU Acclerators
- from BKP will access CRAM at the blinding speed of 21.6 Mb/sec (6x the
- bandwidth of fast ram)."
-
-
- Has anyone heard of/know about this product? Or even what benefits could
- be realized if it worked as advertised?
-
- Francis
-
- P.S. The ad also says that they're coming out with a 32-bit graphics card
- called Brightspark for $299.
-