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- From: ddavis@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Dave Davis)
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- Subject: Re: Does VESA Local Bus put a huge strain on a CPU?
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 03:34:58 GMT
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- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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- >The only thing local-bus buys you is the ability to shove large images
- >back and forth to a dumb frame buffer quickly. It's a cheap way to
- >get fast video performance (which is the thing that most people judge
- >the speed of a system by).
-
- Let me possibly further confuse this issue. How does a local bus IDE
- controller fit into the picture? Is the combination of LB video and drive
- controller about the same as far as drive performance while offering better
- video? The Gateway 2000 66MHz LB system offers both the LB IDE drive and LB
- ATI video combination.
-
- >--
- >"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- > in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- >Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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- dave davis
- ddavis@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
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