Display Card 8■24 GC: Using With Different Monitors

With a Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC installed for one monitor, and a number of other cards for other monitors (Apple or third party), will all the monitors benefit from the Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC? Will if accelerate QuickDraw for the other monitors as well.
When multiple display cards are installed, the Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC accelerates drawing in frame buffers of the Macintosh Display Card 4*8, Macintosh Display Card 8*24, and other frame buffer cards.

The Macintosh Display Card 4*8 and Macintosh Display Card 8*24 show the most improvement because they support slave NuBus block transfers and many other display cards do not.

Acceleration for frame buffers other than the one resident on the Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC would not be as dramatic because of the greater amount of NuBus traffic required.

Only one Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC may be used for graphics acceleration in a system. If two cards are present, one must have its acceleration function disabled.

Published Date: Feb 18, 2012