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From: evgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A new Amiga...
Summary: No bottlenecks
Message-ID: <1051@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 18:05:22 GMT
References: <4144@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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In article <4144@wehi.dn.mu.oz>, BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
> 
>Why do people keep expecting a 68000 based machine to handle faster/bigger/more
>colourful graphics than a 368 machine. Why don't you compare your IBM clone

With the Amiga's custom graphics chips the CPU is freed up to do other things
while in the PC/Mac world the CPU is all too often bogged down processing the
graphics operations. That is why the 68000-based Amiga 1000 can still outperform
a '486 VGA box on similiar graphics operations. I'm sure there are graphics
co-processor boards that take alot of this burden off the Intel/Mac but compare
the $$$$ to an Amiga.


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