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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA
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Subject: FPE & ORCA/Pascal
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Date: 10 Feb 89 21:05:00 GMT
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Strange that they would have to do something to the compiler to support
the board.  Being ignorant of any of the details (I've asked for a
brochure but it hasn't shown up yet) I would think that the way you
would make an interface to the board would be to make a RAM patch to the
SANE toolset so that compiled/assembled code would continue to call the
SANE entry points which instead of doing what they did before would
possibly massage the parameters a bit and then call on the FPE board to
do the real work.

TMPLee@dockmaster.arpa

re:  not being able to accelerate Quickdraw because of the region
facility.  Big deal -- accelerate everything else adn I'm sure you'd
make a lot of people happy.  Where does the finder or any of the
standard menu stuff use regions other possibly than rectangular ones?
(I also think that coming up with hardware to accelerate even the region
stuff should be possible -- sounds like a good project for an advanced
college/grad school electronic engineering project.)