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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:18:39 +0200
From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
CC: Michael Porter <ocean@wavefront.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: AGP
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> what's AGP?

Accelerated Graphics Port - Intel's new scheme to move graphics card off
of the PCI bus into a dedicated local bus to the CPU. I think the 440LX
is the first chipset to support it. Fish around Intel's site for details
(sorry, don't have a URL).

> 
> On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Michael Porter wrote:
> 
> > I was just curious about how long it will take to impliment AGP into
> > FreeBSD.  I know it just came out, so I'm not expecting it soon.  I'm
> > thinking of upgrading to a dual PentII system, and I'm wondering if I
> > should go for the AGP for future use, or, if will take more than say 8
> > months, it wouldn't be worth it.  Right now I don't do anything really
> > graphics-intensive (hell, I've still got a 14" monitor with 1 meg of
> > vid. RAM) but it'd be nice to have the expanability.  I'm pretty new to
> > FreeBSD (about a year now) and I have no clue how long it will take to
> > Imp this technology.
> > Thanks,
> > Michael Porter
> > ocean@wavefront.com
> > port0095@tc.umn.edu
> >
> >
Nadav