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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Simple Frame Buffer boards
Message-ID: <1411@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 4 Dec 90 20:05:18 GMT
References: <916@boing.UUCP> <23699@grebyn.com> <918@boing.UUCP>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <918@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>I think the benefit far out weighs the cost.
>I'd be glad to give up 1/8 of my
>address space for a 1024x1024x8 frame buffer board. I think
>it is a very small price to pay. I just don't see that many
>people unwilling to give up 1M-2M of memory. It still leaves
>4-6 megs of memory for programs as well as the 1M of chip memory.

Hmm, I can't see much benefit from this besides ease of programming.
IMHO, it is sufficient to map a smaller rectangular part. The drawing
routines can be adapted without much peformance loss.

What benefits do you think of ?

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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