Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!andreww From: andreww@uniwa.uwa.oz (Andrew John Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Breaking through the chip-bus barrier? Message-ID: <1991May23.045536.1208@uniwa.uwa.oz> Date: 23 May 91 04:55:36 GMT References: <1991May21.081806.2668@kberg.se> Organization: University of Western Australia Lines: 13 svante@kberg.se (Svante Gellerstam) writes: >I would like to say that the highest hurdle to come over is the >bitplane concept. Why bother? Bitplanes generally gives higher video bandwidth (just look at Nat Semi's graphics chipset) and more importantly more processor - memory bandwidth (If its done right - the processor sees 1 bit/pixel and the hardware sorts out the rest) John West (stealing Andrew's account) ten green fish sitting on a wall (or was that pink fish?)