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- From: dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon)
- Subject: Re: Golden Gate II
- References: <1992Dec21.172153.1796@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:48:59 GMT
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- >In article <BzKppF.CGH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- >(David Salamon) writes:
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- >>The GoldenGateII is indeed a Zorro II specific card. I'm not sure what you
- >>mean by "relative" performance here-- relative to what?
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- tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
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- >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?).
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- I really couldn't say. The GoldenGateII simply passes through Amiga bus
- cycles (with appropriate signal conversions). There should not be any
- loss of speed there. If the CPU is fast enough, it should be able to write
- out video data at a reasonable rate. I'm sure a true Amiga video card
- designed for the video slot would be faster, but probably ten times the
- price of a low end VGA card.
-
- David
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- David Salamon Physics Graduate Student (Slave)
- d-salamon@uiuc.edu University of Illinois
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