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- Contacts: John Barco
- RasterOps Corporation
- 2500 Walsh Avenue
- Santa Clara, CA 94087
- (408) 562-4200
- AppleLink: RASTEROPS2
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- Mary MacGregor/Mark Olson
- Miller Communications
- (415) 962-9550
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- RasterOps Announces Graphics Accelerator Board
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- San Francisco, CA--April 11, 1990--RasterOps Corporation, a leader in color
- display technology for the Macintosh, today announced the RasterOps
- Accelerator, a high performance graphics board designed to make 24-bit color,
- graphics-intensive applications work faster and more smoothly. Typical
- application marketplaces that require this performance include graphic design,
- pre-press and image manipulation.
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- By taking advantage of RasterOps' custom VLSI chip technology, the Accelerat
- offers unique advantages, such as a flexible architecture that allows on-board
- memory expansion up to 16 megabytes. The Accelerator increases overall
- application performance by intercepting a set of QuickDraw graphics functions
- and simplifying them for rapid transfer to the screen — analagous to RISC
- operations.
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- The board can be upgraded with the RasterOps Accelerator DRAM Expansion Kit
- that applications that use larger off-screen bitmaps can address the additional
- memory for a significant increase in speed.
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- "The key to this product is the memory buffer for off-screen to on-screen
- acceleration," said John Barco, product manager at RasterOps. "Users of
- layout, design and imaging applications, particularly when using large, 24-bit
- color images, can benefit immediately from this solution."
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- The Accelerator takes advantage of Block Mode Transfer to move data to the
- display board. Display boards using this mode can move data at a rate up to 36
- megabytes per second, while non-Block Mode Transfer boards will also benefit in
- performance speed.
- In addition, the Accelerator works as a Bus Master capable of accelerating all
- the display boards in any Macintosh II system, including the new Macintosh
- IIfx.
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- The Accelerator is designed to work with display systems in 8-bit to 32-bit
- modes. Suggested retail price is $495. The RasterOps Accelerator 4 MB DRAM
- Expansion Kit (4 -1 MB SIMMs) will have a suggested retail price of $745. The
- RasterOps Accelerator 16 MB DRAM Expansion Kit (4 - 4 MB SIMMs) will have a
- suggested retail price of $4745.
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- RasterOps, headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., designs, manufactures and
- markets photorealistic color-imaging products primarily for the graphic arts,
- printing, publishing and related industries.
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