Re: programmable logic

> That's pretty cool. You know, the TI 34010 graphics processor had some
> hardware instructions that made Bresenham's a snap. It was damn fast too--
> plus dual-port DRAM control... Too bad it's obsoleted. :-(

Well, sort of.. Last time I checked you can still buy the chip, you just
can't get any tech support, etc.. (and they aren't fixing any of the
bugs).. Last time I checked Wms was still using it.. (yes, I wrote a lot
of 34010 asm.. :) The chip wasn't THAT fast though. The only place that
the chip's graphics instructions were used (as I remember) was in the
diagnostics.. But it sure had a lot of other cool features.. Check out
the interrupts as they're tied to the screen subsystem..

Kurt

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Received on Sun Oct 5 17:35:56 1997