Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Re: Need advice on hardware projects Message-ID: <8905012101.AA25658@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 1 May 89 21:01:53 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 10 Refresh has always seemed so silly to me... nobody does the smart thing, which is to *monitor* the address bus and only supply refresh for the rows not accessed by the computer. So, the more loaded your computer gets the fewer refresh cycles need to come in and steal time. That isn't too difficult a function to add in a VLSI refresh controller. -Matt