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- From: tbrown@cis.ohio-state.edu (ted croft brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:35:41 GMT
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- In article <C1Hnxn.nJ@ecf.toronto.edu> giggey@ecf.toronto.edu (GIGGEY Mike S) writes:
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- >Whats so different about the Falcon doing this for graphics when all data
- >bus transfers on the PC are done at 16 bits and depending on your setup at
- >8 bits. Not only that, the data transfer speeds are limited on the PC
- >further slowing down graphics speed. Plus the PC doesn't have a blitter.
- >
-
- This is not true for some Local Bus machines. The Local Bus is wide enough
- to support a graphics card with enough bus leftover to snarf stuff off the
- harddrive at amazing speeds.
-
- But, if the info I just read off of ibm.pc.hardware is true, then using an
- IDE harddrive is useless as they all have controllers timeed to 8Mhz and
- have to be reworked to work with Local Bus. (One person called Maxtor and
- they hadn't started yet!) Unfortuantly I think there are Fast SCSI II
- Local Bus Cards....
-
- Of course we are talking a significant $$ over the Falcon here!
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- Ted Brown tbrown@cis.ohio-state.edu
- tbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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