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- From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
- Subject: Re: Golden Gate II
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.172153.1796@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:21:53 GMT
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- In article <BzKppF.CGH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- (David Salamon) writes:
-
- >The GoldenGateII is indeed a Zorro II specific card. I'm not sure what you
- >mean by "relative" performance here-- relative to what?
-
- By relative, I was simply wondering how a VGA card would perform under this
- configuration as compared to use on its native ISA bus (ie, would an
- accelerated card such as a Speedstar or Ultra Pro be reasonably fast
- given RTG?).
-
- >There is no plan to make a Zorro III version of this, because there is no
- >point. AT PC plug-in cards can only operate at 8 MHz and 16 bits...
-
- Ok., that's all I needed to know :).
-
- >>o Will the card be released commercially?
- >Possibly, but I am a student and I don't want to do this full time. I may
- >try to sell the design to someone else to manufacture.
-
- It may have tremendous potential.
-
- >I don't think the libraries would be difficult at all, once RTG is available.
- >Several GoldenGateII owners say they are interested in writing a driver to
- >display still images. I suspect one will be available soon.
-
- Good stuff.
-
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- Tim Ciceran, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Brock University, Canada.
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
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