[rescue] Vesa Local Bus video cards
Jochen Kunz
jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Tue Apr 1 16:09:56 CST 2003
On 2003.04.01 11:24 Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> Not 100% accurate, AGP shares a lot with PCI,
Sure. E.g. NetBSD handles the AGP port as a separate PCI bus.
> The reason is that 64/66 PCI slots are EXPENSIVE for a motherboard
> manufacturer, a fast 32bit slot is way cheaper...
So they invented somthing new to get some advantage on the market and
save a few $ insted using exixting technology.
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Jochen
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