Re: VGA card?

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:

>	If a hardware modification is to be made

  We're consolidating some PALs into a single FPGA. We're not doing
a ground-up redesign :-)

>I'd suggesadding sockets
>for certain key chips that would allow more colors per screen (ie, Zilog, 
>Oak, etc). Those chips may be expensive now, but like all electronics, they
>will definately fall in price in a couple of years. This benfits both the
>end user _and_ Sequential Systems in the long run. We users can have 32k or 
>16M colors on-screen in future, Sequential can profit upgrading old cards
>with the (by then) inexpensive chips -- a la ZipGS upgrades. Looking at
>an image of the Second Sight I have here, the only socketed chips are the
>DRAMs and ROM firmware. That doesn't leave much room to expand... :|

  I don't think it's quite as simple as socketing a chip, but I'll 
look into it.

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