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From: john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Frame Buffers
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Date: 7 Oct 89 03:39:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: jac@muslix.llnl.gov's message of 5 Oct 89 18:14:43 GMT





     Well, I don't have the original posting handy, but I'm pretty sure that
   there were TWO boards announced. One was a frame buffer, which I believe
   was supposed to have 24 bit color. The other was the ULowell graphics
   board, which has 8 bit color and a TI34010 graphics chip, supporting
   resolutions up to 1024x1024. 

I saw a prototype board from the people at Ulowell last year.  They
came to my school and gave a talk about it.  It wasn't a color board,
it was an image manipulation board.  It was very good at doing real
time image stuff, such as rotating the text, finding the edges of an
object,  and some other neat stuff.  It was basically 8 processors on
a card.  Quite a niced setup.  I might, stress on might, be able to
get some more info about it, like the professors name who gave the demo.

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