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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Video Board -- need references
Keywords: Video, IEEE Futurebus, BitBlt
Message-ID: <2018@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 90 13:35:53 GMT
References: <4271@brazos.Rice.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <4271@brazos.Rice.edu> carson@rice.edu (Jim Carson) writes:

|       o   The video card should also interface to the keyboard and pointing 
|            devices.

  This strikes me as a particularly non-modular thing to do... at least
if you meant that these devices should go through the video board to get
to the CPU. I realize this is a project rather than a product, but it
still seems strange unless there will be some direct interraction
without using the CPU.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me