Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!SFAUSTIN.BITNET!Z4648252 From: Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Atari's blitter vs. the Mac RISC graphics unit Message-ID: <900319.21333002.006066@SFA.CP6> Date: 20 Mar 90 03:33:31 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 Hello all, This is not a direct quote since I'm doing this from memory but the March 19th Dallas Morning News announced that Apple announced a RISC graphics chip that is supposed to make windows, circles, text, etc. draw up to 30 times faster than a 'standard Mac' whatever that is. The same article stated that the Mac's RISC unit 'is the first chip of this nature' on the market or something to that effect. The ballyhoo was so intense in the article that the reader would really think that this was indeed a 'first'. Now I'm just a dumb 'Joe End User' but what about the blitter chips for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga? The article also continued with phraseology similar to that of the ST and Amiga in that it said that the main CPU could now get on with traffic managing tasks rather than the actual graphics management. Still sounds like a blitter to me. If this is indeed a first then WHAT ABOUT the ST and Amiga chips? I mean, seriously!!? Larry Rymal: |East Texas Atari 68NNNers|