Replacement PB Duo 270C active matrix screen?

ELN/rlf9 rlf9 at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 22 19:18:35 PST 2003


>From: Marc Sira <toh at victoria.tc.ca>
>Message-Id: <200301220205.h0M25TVU029678 at vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>
>Subject: [Duo2400] Re: Replacement PB Duo 270C active matrix screen?
>Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:05:29 -0800 (PST)
>
[snip]
>
>Between a Duo 280 and 270 you'll find that the 280 is somewhat appreciably 
>faster most of the time and considerably faster for integer-only number 
>crunching, but vastly slower (or simply impossible to use) for floating-point 
>work. Since you're only likely to actually need an FPU for things like non-
>realtime graphics rendering, you can decide which would suit your needs 
>better. Most Mac software never hits the FPU, especially 68k stuff (since the 
>presence of one is so hit-and-miss, and failing to find it is usually a 
>crashing matter on a stock OS).
>
>-- 
>Marc Sira		|	toh at victoria.tc.ca
>If you can't play with words, what good are they?
>
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non-realtime graphics rendering...

real-time graphics rendering...

Eh, please explain what these mean to you so that I might follow your 
thinking a little better. Maybe few examples too?

Bob F



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