Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utai!dudek
From: dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Will DMA ever be used in the Mac?
Message-ID: <4188@utai.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 87 17:12:12 GMT
References: <5094@iuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dudek@ai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Lines: 19
Keywords: hardware, mac
Summary: 

In article <5094@iuvax.UUCP> viking@iuvax.UUCP (Jon W. Backstrom) writes:
>
>2) Screen I/O is also managed by the CPU.  I dream of the day that Apple or
>   someone (RasterOps?) develops a video card with a graphics co-processor.
>   This is made more difficult by the need to run the quickdraw routines, but
>   maybe somebody can do it!  (Apple, are you listening?)
>
    I believe I've read that a graphics co-processor card (using the
TI chip??) should be available within the next 6 months or so.  I
thought I saw it in a recent Macintosh Today.
    BTW, I think MacIntosh Today is being very even handed by publishing
articles critical of Mac architecture as well as positive stuff.  I
was really getting sick of the lopsided hype-boosterism typical of so
many magazines (like MacWorld).
    Gregory Dudek
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