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From: gil@jts.com (gil)
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Subject: Hardware accelerators for the MAC
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.202530.19164@jts.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 20:25:30 GMT
Organization: Tech Noir Inc., Toronto, Canada
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I have several questions about graphics accelerators for the Mac
(Nubus). Hopefully somebody out there has some experience with these
and can help out.

	1) What vendors are selling graphics (quickdraw) accelerators
	and how much are they?

	2) Do they work reliably across different applications that
	use quickdraw?

	3) What sort of performance improvements would one expect from
	these?

	4) If you have actual experience I would be interested in
	getting some numbers (management is hard to please).

	5) Are there any graphics accelerators that provide
	functionality over and above quickdraw (i.e. display list
	processing, polygon shading, x-windows, etc.)? Again, actual
	experience would be helpful.

	6) What fields of applications would benefit from such
	acceleration (CAD, DTP, scientific, etc.)?

Thanks in advance,

	Gil
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