> On altavista, I found several references to it as an abbreviation for
> RAM-Based Video, four multiple mentions of it in terms of GESTALT calls...
> but interfacing, nowhere.  What does the chip do, anyway?

RAM-based video.  :-)  Apart from supplying video from regular main
memory, it incorporates the functionality of the 2nd VIA.  All macs
have at least one VIA.  The MacII was, I think, the first to contain
two.  The second one handles, among other things, the NuBus interrupts
and SCSI interrupts.

-allen

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