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Hlep me Identify this card
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google is your friend
appears to be a "computer on a board"?
http://www.google.com/search?q=adap...eid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
appears to be a "computer on a board"?
http://www.google.com/search?q=adap...eid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Close Duff man, but the layout doesn't look quite right. I would guess that it might be a variant of an Orange Micro Wintel-on-a-card, that allowed the user to run Windows natively in a Mac.
Lets look at it on dual level:
1. How would this help photoshop run faster? What hardware functions or software functions does this card serve?
2. I never seen wintel cards in action, any place I could read up on them?
edit: If it had a model number on it, this woulda made my life easier.
1. How would this help photoshop run faster? What hardware functions or software functions does this card serve?
2. I never seen wintel cards in action, any place I could read up on them?
edit: If it had a model number on it, this woulda made my life easier.
Rabidjade said:
Dedicated processors to speed up rendering complex, multi-layer, high-resolution images? With local dedicated RAM to hold image data during processing?
Rabidjade said:2. I never seen wintel cards in action, any place I could read up on them?
edit: If it had a model number on it, this woulda made my life easier.
Good question, there (other than to Google for it). I'd like to see a modernized PC-on-a-card that uses either 64-bit 66MHz PCI or 133MHz PCI-X slot to aid in running VirtualPC. I'd think a "real" Pentium III at 733MHz (would be theoretically possible on a 133MHz PCI-X interface) would run circles around an emulated P-II any day of the week.
Cnaps 1016 Image Processsing
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~strom/papers/ieeeproc.PDF
Here is quite a technical pdf - It does appear that these cards are used for image processing - I would guess that the OS would need some drivers to acknowledge the existence of the cards.
Taken from the PDF
image processing (IP), employs five fundamental classes of operation
1) image enhancement;
2) image restoration;
3) image analysis;
4) image compression; and
5) image synthesis.
Image Processing is used extensively in such diverse fields as medicine, astronomy, and entertainment. I am guessing now these are the fields that Adaptive sold the cards to.
I think this PDF will answer most questions that you may have about the cards
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~strom/papers/ieeeproc.PDF
Here is quite a technical pdf - It does appear that these cards are used for image processing - I would guess that the OS would need some drivers to acknowledge the existence of the cards.
Taken from the PDF
image processing (IP), employs five fundamental classes of operation
1) image enhancement;
2) image restoration;
3) image analysis;
4) image compression; and
5) image synthesis.
Image Processing is used extensively in such diverse fields as medicine, astronomy, and entertainment. I am guessing now these are the fields that Adaptive sold the cards to.
I think this PDF will answer most questions that you may have about the cards