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- From: rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp)
- Subject: ACM Presents: Megatek ESPRIX X accelerator
- Message-ID: <Bw4tLE.8tD@metaflow.com>
- Keywords: ACM, X Windows, Megatek, Sun
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- Organization: Metaflow Technologies Inc.
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:10:26 GMT
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- The Megatek ESPRIX -- X Windows Accelerator
-
- Philip Staiger of Megatek Corp will show the ESPRIX graphics
- accelerator for Sun Microsystems workstations. It accelerates X
- Windows, and draws over 600,000 vectors per second. It has an 8 bit
- color frame buffer, and resolution up to 1600 x 1024 pixels. Mr.
- Staiger will discuss various architectural issues, including the use of
- shared memory, the use of the floating point accelerator, the frame
- buffer, and more. Hands-on interaction will be available.
-
- This presentation is brought to you by the San Diego Professional
- Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, a non-profit
- professional society. Meetings are open to the public, and there is no
- charge.
-
- This meeting will take place on Thursday, October 22, at 6:30 PM, in
- the vicinity of University Towne Center. So that we may have some idea
- of the attendence level, please make your reservation by calling me the
- number listed below, or by emailing me. I will give you more
- information on the location of the meeting.
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-
- ...Russ Schnapp
- BIX: rschnapp Email: uunet!metaflow!rschnapp or rschnapp@metaflow.com
- Voice: 619/452-6608x230; FAX: 619/452-0401
- Unless otw specified, I`m speaking only for myself!
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