1) Question: Will the Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC accelerate the internal video circuitry on the Macintosh IIci?
Answer: No. The Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC accelerates only NuBus video
cards that use frame buffering for video images. This works even better if
the other video card supports NuBus slave mode. The Macintosh IIci's video
circuitry does not use NuBus, nor does it support frame buffering. It will not be accelerated, except possibly in some very complex, pixel-deep images. This would be due to the Display Card 8*24 GC's processor and modified 32-bit QuickDraw. It probably would go unnoticed.
2) Question: Will the Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC accelerate the Macintosh II Portrait Display Video Card?
Answers: The Display Card 8*24 GC accelerates the Portrait Display Card, but the increased performance would be at the low end of the spectrum (5 versus 30
times increase). This is because the Portrait Display does not support the NuBus slave mode.
Article Change History:
29 Nov 1995 - Updated format. Reviewed for technical accuracy.
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