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Announcing Graphics Accelerator
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Contacts: John Barco
RasterOps Corporation
2500 Walsh Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 94087
(408) 562-4200
AppleLink: RASTEROPS2
Mary MacGregor/Mark Olson
Miller Communications
(415) 962-9550
RasterOps Announces Graphics Accelerator Board
San Francisco, CA--April 11, 1990--RasterOps Corporation, a leader in color
display technology for the Macintosh, today announced the RasterOps
Accelerator, a high performance graphics board designed to make 24-bit color,
graphics-intensive applications work faster and more smoothly. Typical
application marketplaces that require this performance include graphic design,
pre-press and image manipulation.
By taking advantage of RasterOps' custom VLSI chip technology, the Accelerat
offers unique advantages, such as a flexible architecture that allows on-board
memory expansion up to 16 megabytes. The Accelerator increases overall
application performance by intercepting a set of QuickDraw graphics functions
and simplifying them for rapid transfer to the screen — analagous to RISC
operations.
The board can be upgraded with the RasterOps Accelerator DRAM Expansion Kit
that applications that use larger off-screen bitmaps can address the additional
memory for a significant increase in speed.
"The key to this product is the memory buffer for off-screen to on-screen
acceleration," said John Barco, product manager at RasterOps. "Users of
layout, design and imaging applications, particularly when using large, 24-bit
color images, can benefit immediately from this solution."
The Accelerator takes advantage of Block Mode Transfer to move data to the
display board. Display boards using this mode can move data at a rate up to 36
megabytes per second, while non-Block Mode Transfer boards will also benefit in
performance speed.
In addition, the Accelerator works as a Bus Master capable of accelerating all
the display boards in any Macintosh II system, including the new Macintosh
IIfx.
The Accelerator is designed to work with display systems in 8-bit to 32-bit
modes. Suggested retail price is $495. The RasterOps Accelerator 4 MB DRAM
Expansion Kit (4 -1 MB SIMMs) will have a suggested retail price of $745. The
RasterOps Accelerator 16 MB DRAM Expansion Kit (4 - 4 MB SIMMs) will have a
suggested retail price of $4745.
RasterOps, headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., designs, manufactures and
markets photorealistic color-imaging products primarily for the graphic arts,
printing, publishing and related industries.
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This information is provided to the Apple Developer Group by the product’s
developer. Apple cannot warrant any third party’s product. Please consult the
Apple Products & Ref Library, MENU/Software Library, or Redgate Buyer’s Guide
Library on AppleLink, or contact the third-party company directly for more
information.
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