Re: Accelerator / VGA Graphics card

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:Ifbmb.12618$EO3.11462@clgrps13...
>
> Bill Garber wrote:
> > <ole2@netrogue.de> wrote in message
>
> >>Was the Transwarp IIe not effectively an entire computer on a card? I
read
> >> that somewhere...
> >
> > I can't vouch for the TW2E, but the TWGS surely is.
> > I never saw so many things stuffed onto a 7" IF card.
>
> Despite the chip count the TWGS wouldn't be considered a "computer on
> a card" because it replaces nothing but the processor.
>
> The Transwarp was different in that it replaced a lot of the computers
> components. On startup it copied the computers ROM into it's RAM and
> never accessed the ROM again. Also It used it's own RAM instead of
> the IIe's motherboard RAM and the first bank of auxiliary card RAM.
> At one time I used a TW in a II+ with no motherboard RAM in the
> sockets.

True it would be difficult to place 1-8 mb of ram on a single card.
Well, at that time in the history of ram anyway.

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