Re: Pipes

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Allan Schaffer (allan++at++southpark.engr.sgi.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:04:20 -0700 (PDT)

On Jul 28, 2:43pm, William Sherman -Visualization wrote:
> There are two ways I can envision multiple PIPEs being used to
> feed a single video output -- temporal interlacing and spatial
> division of the frame buffer.
>
> Is [temporal interlacing] the method that the new Onyx2/IR2 does?

That's correct.

Also, allow me to correct one item Angus mentioned: at this time
D-Plex can support up to 8 pipes together with one output (not 16);
I believe you could have two groups of 8, though.

Allan

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