Re: New Memory Board

[Robert Creager <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org>]

Hey Tom,

Might I make a recommendation?  If you are going to the trouble to re-do the
card, make the data width at least 16 bits (maybe even 32?).  Then a single
pixel value (or two) can be read in one shot.  I can have test code in about 5
minutes based on downfits for either of these configurations on Linux.  I think
I can still compile the Windows version also.

Later,
Rob

When grilled further on (Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:30:56 -0600),
"Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net> confessed:

> I am working on a new memory board.  Now that I understand the problems in
> the old memory board a little better, I really want to build a new one.  I
> have contracted Bill (who lives across the street) to design a new one.  He
> plans to use system programs and DLLs and all that stuff.  He has promised
> that it will be invisible to me and that everything will still happen with
> OUTs INPs and the like.  We shall see.  Possibly I will need volunteers to
> (particularly those with Mark IVs)  try the new card and help make it work. 
> 
> The goal will then be to move everything over to run under Linux.   
> 
> I know I keep setting out on this adventure, and I usually get mauled in
> the process.  But it is the one thing that makes the system flaky, and I
> want to fix it.  
> 
> Tom Droege
> 
> 
> Tom  Droege Jennifer Malpass
> tdroege2@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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