Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!grebyn!ckp
From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Simple Frame Buffer boards
Message-ID: <23699@grebyn.com>
Date: 1 Dec 90 00:10:05 GMT
References: <916@boing.UUCP>
Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies)
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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In article <916@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>Why is it so difficult to design a simple memory
>mapped frame buffer board. I've gotten the specs
>on a couple, like the firecracker and most seem
>to have forgotten that the main cpu of the Amiga
>is 68000 based. Read: FLAT ADDRESS SPACE.

The 8 meg expansion address space of the Amiga is too precious  to
devote a meg or more of it to "just" a frame buffer.

True, Zorro III has plenty of space (1.7 Gig?) for such a device.  But
right now, no developer would be so stupid as to make an A3000-only
device.  The market's way too small.


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