From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 31 20:18:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14910 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 20:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA14903 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 20:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18405; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:48:22 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <99Feb1.144917est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 14:48:22 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: USB drivers Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01-Feb-99 Peter Jeremy wrote: > >I'm not convinced that this is feasible nowadays. > > It had problems even in the Amiga - the `hi-res' modes [like > 640x480x16 colour] used _all_ of the chip RAM bandwidth - the > processor only got a look-in during retrace periods (assuming > your audio and sprites weren't using all that). Yes, but lets face it the Amiga's bus isn't exactly fast by todays standards :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message