aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
the patent explains that the "new invention" uses very little high speed memory, eliminating the need to duplicate motherboard RAM in high speed RAM in the acceleration hardware.
The prinary benefit of cache technology--though hardly novel in the timeframe of this patent! Most patents are much more "formal" and less specific in their descriptions. It's quite unusual to have chip numbers, not just logic gates. I'd say that this application was prepared by someone other than a patent attorney! -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."