Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!grebyn!ckp From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Intel graphics chip Keywords: Intel, 586, windows, 82786 Message-ID: <24187@grebyn.com> Date: 21 Dec 90 19:19:43 GMT References: <1990Dec19.115110.15070@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <3070@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Dec19.154145.10137@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Dec20.194956.21974@rice.edu> Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA Lines: 21 With this talk of hardware windows and the Intel 82786, I've been racking my brain for the last few days to remember this and I just recalled it. I read an article in Computer Design magazine sometime in the last year about a chip from Standard Microsystems, called the VIEW chip. This was a "refresh processor" that would also do windows in hardware. It has no drawing functions, but rather is dedicated to the task of refresh. It has a microprogrammed processor which constructs the window overlap/etc lists from simple rectangle/priority descriptions, so therefore is much easier to program than the 82786 (so the article said). At the time I remember thinking that this chip plus a 340x0 would make agreat display card. I'm going to spend some time and try to find the article, if anyone's interested. This was all from memory and so may be very inaccurate. -- First comes the logo: C H E C K P O I N T T E C H N O L O G I E S / / \\ / / Then, the disclaimer: All expressed opinions are, indeed, opinions. \ / o Now for the witty part: I'm pink, therefore, I'm spam! \/