Re: Pipes

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:21:25 -0700

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Allan Schaffer wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I checked this information with the product manager prior to posting
and 16 is the upper limit not 8.

Cheers,Angus.

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