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- From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
- Subject: Re: RTG? And Graphics Cards???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.213437.21764@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:34:37 GMT
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- In article <37805@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
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- >I ran into all kinds of boards running Workbench while at the World of
- >Commodore show in Frankfurt. This "oMniBus" card I came back with was one.
- >This is actually just a bus converting bridgecard kind of thing with a
- >programmable video switch. The software drives a VGA card over the Zorro II
- >bus, and it's reasonably smart about getting out of the way for Amiga screens
- >(thus the switch).
-
- Interesting approach. Does the card then incorporate the TSENG chipset,
- or does the oMniBus card require an additional AT VGA card (similar to the
- case with Golden Gate Bridge)? Any idea as to the MSRP?
-
- Also, is the performance quite reasonable under this strategy?
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