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- From: popec@freeside.com (PopeC)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
- Subject: Re: Macintosh VR
- Message-ID: <54V9VB3w165w@freeside.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 11:08:03 CST
- References: <1992Dec9.150234.25663@wam.umd.edu>
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- davei@wam.umd.edu (The One True Dave) writes:
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- > In article <4VmDVB3w165w@freeside.com> popec@freeside.com (PopeC) writes:
- > >Part of the problem with PCs are that they have been strangled by low
- > >speed i/o bus. Macs had the right idea with running video at the CPU
- > >speed. But local bus motherboards and cards, including HD interfaces and
- > >video will make the PC a better platform than it was.
- > > Video accelerators on the PCs have pretty much eliminated that
- > >bottleneck anyway.
- > >
- > >24 bit color cards are now available under the $200 mark for the PC.
- > >These cheap bords won't go a full 1024 x 780 but they will do the
- > >equivalent of NTSC which is all VR goggles will allow you to use anyway.
- >
- > Also, already out for the PC is local bus video. The video card has a
- > separate bus running at CPU speed. This should eliminate the remaining
- > bottleneck there.
-
-
- Yup, and apparently the PC bus may be about to mutate. Everything will
- be local bus running at CPU speed, instead of 8mhz bus speed. Add more
- advanced DMA capabilities and we'll finally have systems that can use the
- Intel chips a lot more effeciently. This will put the final nail in EISA
- and Microchannel's coffins.
- Now your peripherals will be the limiting factor.
-
-
- Pope Charles
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