From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 27 20:35:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA12204 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 20:35:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA12195 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 20:35:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA01086; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 15:12:27 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512280442.PAA01086@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Laptops? To: marc@immersive.com Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 15:12:27 +1030 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512280225.SAA15762@blob.best.net> from "Marc de Groot" at Dec 27, 95 06:25:26 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Marc de Groot stands accused of saying: > > > > Active matrix SVGA -- with PCI bus. Must be fast! > > > > You sure you want a laptop with a PCI bus (not that I've ever seen one)? > > What will you plug into it? :-) > > > This is a PCI bus without a slot, and it's for the processor-to-VGA data path. So probably not a real PCI bus at all, but just a direct mapping of the display into the processor address space, somewhat like what used to be called "VLB video" back when VLB was all the rage. > Marc de Groot | Immersive Systems, Inc. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[