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- From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
- Subject: Re: RTG? And Graphics Cards???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.053100.27207@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:31:00 GMT
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- In article <37899@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
-
- >It uses a separate VGA card on the PC bus, driven by the oMniBus bridge. The
- >A3000, VGA, and monitor plug into the oMniBus, which controls switching between
- >the two outputs.
-
- Nicely done. I take it that you are currently restricted to using cards based
- on the Tseng chipset?
-
- BTW, Did the developers give any indication as to the price? Not everybody
- gets a freebie I bet!
-
- >>Also, is the performance quite reasonable under this strategy?
-
- >It's much better than I would have expected. I find it just fine for
- >programming and DTP. I suppose anything running over the Zorro II or ISA
- >bus (or, in this case, both) is going to slow down when you get too much
- >data to throw around, but I haven't run into that yet.
-
- Would a Zorro-III specific configuration make a significant difference in
- performance? With the A3000/A4000 series machines becoming more prevalent,
- it would be nice to take advantage of this architecture.
-
-