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    03-Dec-93 09:57:02
Sb: #38045-TIGA CARD
Fm: New member 73016,27
To: Oliver Gerd Wormer 100115,2523
I've been thru some of this in the past. The TI34010 is a graphics processor. You can get complete data books from Texas I. Look in the local yellow pages for a TI rep and they will be glad (I think) to send one (or more) out to you. Now then the problem is that the 34010 and others of this ilk are fantasticly great at running demos. ie zapping out 100 bizzilion circles/lines/boxes etc. They are also fantastly BAD at running real world graphics. No, I'm not saying its impossable to write a new OS that would take advantage of this sort of thing. It is possable (maybe). It just won't happen with 34010 on an Amiga/ibm/Mac Thats the good news. The bad news is that the 34010 is old news. Sorry to be the bearer of such bad stuff. It gets worse but you won't need to listen to more rantings from me <grin>.