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diff --git a/Documentation/sgi-visws.txt b/Documentation/sgi-visws.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7ff0811..0000000 --- a/Documentation/sgi-visws.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ - -The SGI Visual Workstations (models 320 and 540) are based around -the Cobalt, Lithium, and Arsenic ASICs. The Cobalt ASIC is the -main system ASIC which interfaces the 1-4 IA32 cpus, the memory -system, and the I/O system in the Lithium ASIC. The Cobalt ASIC -also contains the 3D gfx rendering engine which renders to main -system memory -- part of which is used as the frame buffer which -is DMA'ed to a video connector using the Arsenic ASIC. A PIIX4 -chip and NS87307 are used to provide legacy device support (IDE, -serial, floppy, and parallel). - -The Visual Workstation chipset largely conforms to the PC architecture -with some notable exceptions such as interrupt handling. |