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From: osmoviita@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Caching and VGA (was: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems)
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.030753.6037@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 18 Apr 91 03:07:53 GMT
References: <1991Apr6.045408.15395@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr7.170017.23962@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1991Apr7.232941.21382@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr8.154643.784@saturn.uucp>
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In article <1991Apr8.154643.784@saturn.uucp>, martin@saturn.uucp (Martin J. Schedlbauer) writes:
> 
> Many 486 system allow one to disable caching of memory in the upper address
> ranges. This is important for memory-mapped I/O cards such as VGA, etc. 
>

How does VGA (SuperVGA) etc. suffer from caching? 

Kari Osmoviita		osmoviita@cc.helsinki.fi