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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Using Apple Display Card GC & 8*24GC INIT
Message-ID: <5151@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 2 Dec 90 19:02:14 GMT
References: <1990Nov25.084331.26643@agate.berkeley.edu> <5005@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <2158@carroll1.cc.edu>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <2158@carroll1.cc.edu> dtroup@carroll1.cc.edu (David C. Troup) writes:
>>It won't.  No accelerator cards work under the current version of A/UX
>>because they necessarily deal with physical addresses and screen memory
>>is accessed at a virtual address different from the the physical address.
>>I hear this may be addressed in future versions of A/UX.
>	I talked to DayStar Digital this past week for questions on 
>	problems with the 030 40mhz card for the IIci running under
>	AU/X, and it seems there are some "Little problems..." with the card...


Fine, but my comment above doesn't address this.  I was talking about A/UX and
*graphics* accelerators like the 8*24GC or the SuperMac Spectrum 24 Series III
or the equivalent RasterOps card.


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Steve Dyer
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