From: s891961@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Peter David Cupit) Subject: Re: Gnu hardware Date: 28 Sep 1992 07:19:35 GMT
>dmiller@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (David L. Miller) writes:
>>I have been seeing some interesting ideas floating about on this thread.
>>I may have time to do some design work on this hardware after the first of
>>the year. What I would like to see before I start though is some coordination
>>and detailed specifications. If there seems to be a consensus by the time
>>I get started, I will probably design to it.
I doubt that I am capable of designing as much hardware as woulld
be required for this free graphics card but I had some thoughts.
I was wondering, how much are 860's in quantity? Are people
thinking of making a card with a graphics processor?
I have read that there was a graphics chip made by Inmos for the
transputer, it would be interesting to see if it would be possible
to have a kind of scalable graphics system using T800's.
Would the graphics card be in the address space of the 386 if the
card was plugged into the Bus, I guess that a card made for linux
would not work in DOS because the card would be better if it could
be accessed not in 64k chunks? So, I guess it would need to
co-exist since on boot-up the card would perhaps not operate?
Anyway, just some ideas,
Peter Cupit.
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