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- From: halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin)
- Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro: showcase for EISA?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.042516.24857@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Sep10.222135.6270@news.columbia.edu> <BuHw71.7D5@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:25:16 GMT
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- In article <BuHw71.7D5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
- >mkg4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Michael K Gavin) writes:
- >>ATI's Graphics Ultra Pro is going to be issued in ISA and EISA versions.
- >>Does anyone know whether the EISA version will perform any better than
- >>the ISA version? This seems like a good test of whether those of us
- >>who invested in EISA motherboards made a good move or not, eh?
- >*----
- >I'd think the most important feature would be that it could co-exist
- >with real 32-bit applications and hardware. Did you go with EISA
- >for performance or headroom?
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- In theory it should offer both. The $64 question is can Windows get at
- the 2MB of VRAM through EISA directly, taking advantage of linear addressing
- and 32-bit transfers or do you peek at 2MB through a 64K window doing 16-bit
- transfers? -Steve
-
- >--
- > Mike Berger
- > Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
- > AT&TNET 217-244-6067
- > Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
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