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- From: bgilbert@cs.washington.edu (Ben Gilbert)
- Subject: Re: Falcon BUS..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.233522.6190@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Nov15.055345.22495@rmece49.upr.clu.edu> <1992Nov15.103301.16969@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <1992Nov15.203034.27841@rmece49.upr.clu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 23:35:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.203034.27841@rmece49.upr.clu.edu> raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu (Ricardo Hernandez) writes:
- > This turns off Antic DMA so the machine speeds up like 30%.
- >
- > Now, should the Falcon had a separate memory that only the CPU could
- >access, this would mean that the CPU will slow down only when accessing
- >video memory under heavy graphic modes. Same happen with other
- >coprocessors.
- >
- > :-)
-
- Yes, this would be nice, I agree. Isn't that how the TT RAM usually works?
- I mean TT RAM can only be accessed by the CPU or something like that,
- right? Maybe someone with a TT could fill us in on how this works exactly.
- With the PDS slot in the Falcon (even if it is only 16/24 like has been
- said), perhaps you could make a RAM upgrade which would work similar to the
- TT RAM so that you could run programs a lot faster. I really have no
- clue as to how the PDS could be used, but I've heard that emulators,
- memory upgrades, or graphics upgrades are all possible. So maybe with a
- Falcon-RAM upgrade we could _really_ get the thing screaming along... :)
-
- >
- >- Raist
-
- Cheers,
-
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-
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- Ben Gilbert e-mail : bgilbert@cs.washington.edu
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Washington
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