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From: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT announcement
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Date: 15 Sep 89 16:35:52 GMT
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In article <1695@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
>gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>
>| 3. Plug in blitter and ROMS. Note the small speed increase, since you're
>|    running TurboST or QuickST already...
>
>  I beg to differ here, Greg.  TurboST 1.6 runs _much_ faster on a machine
>with a blitter than one without.  Least it seems that way to me.

This is a classic "your mileage will vary" situation. A blitter does some
things much better than a 68000, and other things only as well as a 68000.
The stuff that *I* happen to do on my ST (mostly editing text in windows that
are aligned) the blitter can't beat the 68000. So it wouldn't be cost effective
for *me* to go out and buy a blitter upgrade. And I'm not going to whine
because Atari didn't provide me a blitter upgrade for my old 520.

If I was doing stuff that was sped up by a blitter, I'd buy one.


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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                             I'm not the NRA.