Using Apple Display Card GC & 8*24GC INIT

[Steve Dyer]

In article <1990Nov25.084331.26643 at agate.berkeley.edu> ehrlich at bernini.ced.berkeley.edu (Charles Ehrlich) writes:
>I'm hoping this GC card is going to accelerate A/UX based MacX.
>Please clue me in if I am totally in left field.

It won't.  No accelerator cards work under the current version of A/UX
because they necessarily deal with physical addresses and screen memory
is accessed at a virtual address different from the the physical address.
I hear this may be addressed in future versions of A/UX.

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Steve Dyer
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