Re: Mach Speed motherboard w/onboard video

[Andrew Walrond]

On Friday 10 Dec 2004 20:41, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> An external video card will give you materially better performance
> anyway and if you are doing real time stuff help in a few other ways.
>

Is this one of those 'shared memory' video chipsets then? And is it like the 
old days on the Amiga where some of the system ram is dual ported so that 
video/cpu don't contend the bus for memory access, or are you implying that 
they do contend, and that imposes a performance hit?

Or none of the above? :)

Andrew Walrond
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