Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!vaxphw.dec.com From: phil@vaxphw.dec.com (Phil Hunt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MicroTV for your MacII ($395) Message-ID: <4086@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 16 Aug 89 03:54:23 GMT Sender: news@shlump.nac.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 23 In article <402@taniwha.UUCP>, paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes... }I looked at it at MacWorld, when it's running things really seem to slow }way down .... we were trying to figure out how they can sell a $395 }NuBus Master without lots of VLSI (and hence time to market etc) .... }we finally figured it out .... it's probably not a NuBus master and } every so often it interrupts the Mac II and the Mac wakes up and copies }the TV data from a RAM on the board to the screen - hence the cheap cost and }the slow keyboard performance (they probably copy it at interrupt time!) }it also explains the low resolution which wont be likely to get much }better (without DMA) ... a neat hack but I think i'll pass } } Paul } Exactly right! At Macworld, they said the board takes 30+% of the CPU to run!!! Yikes! Too much for me to watch tv on my mac! ================================================================== Phil Hunt "Wherever you go, there you are!!!" Digital Equipment Corporation Phone: (508)486-2164 ENET: VAXPHW::PHIL USENET: phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com MOREUSENET: phil%vaxphw.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com EVENMORE: ....!decwrl!dec-vaxphw!phil