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 -- Dept. of Computer Science (vision group) University of Toronto Usenet: {linus, ihnp4, allegra, decvax, floyd}!utcsri!dudek CSNET: dudek@ai.toronto.edu DELPHI: GDUDEK