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  3. From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  5. Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.123416.4451@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
  7. Date: 22 Dec 92 12:34:16 GMT
  8. References: <Bz9qq6.5L6@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1992Dec21.171259.24268@cbmtor.uucp>
  9. Sender: news@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
  10. Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
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  14. In <1992Dec21.171259.24268@cbmtor.uucp> steve@cbmtor.uucp (Steve Vetzal) writes:
  15. >Newer graphics geometries shouldn't be all that different from those available
  16. >today.
  17.  
  18. However, many graphic cards (especially Zorro-II ones) may not be accessible
  19. by the CPU directly. Some people will use dedicated graphic processors
  20. or a separate DMA-I/O channel or whatever. It is also likely that most
  21. cards will use chunky pixels.
  22.  
  23. Regards,
  24. -- 
  25. Michael van Elst
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  28.                                 "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
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