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From: brazil@pawl.rpi.edu (Timothy E. Onders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari's blitter vs. the Mac RISC graphics unit
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Date: 20 Mar 90 21:01:04 GMT
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Apparantly, the new Mac graphics board does not use any special RISC chip,
but rather uses Advanced Micro Devices RISC processor.  Performance should 
be comparable to the various Transputer type graphics cards for the IBM.
Personally, I think it's a waste to have more processing power on the 
graphics card than in the CPU.  They should have used a 68040 for the main
CPU.
					-Tim Onders
					brazil@pawl.rpi.edu