This card looks like it is probably a high end sound card - definatly late 80's. If it's not a sound card, it may be a high end video effects/rendering or such processing card. The CPU would direct all video tasks from a specific app to use the processing power of this special card to increase the speed of the action. Texas Instruments is known for their DPS chips, and a lot of them are/were used in sound equipment.
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Eliott Wolfe
Winnetka, Calif