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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: So that's what an Amiga is good for!
Message-ID: <00673677969@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Date: 8 May 91 04:46:09 GMT
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From article <1991May2.184530.20781@milton.u.washington.edu>, by alfalfa@milton.u.washington.edu (Corey Lawson):
> Hmm...Well, any amiga should be good for what you want to do.  I hate to do
> this, but the CA programs for the NeXT usually are written to take advantage
> of the DSP chip that is on it (Motorola DSP56000) (this is kind of an inad-
> vertent plug for the NeXT...)

The NeXT doesn't cost $500, though.

You're right, though. The Amiga blitter runs at the same rate no matter
what processor is in the machine... so a low-cost Amiga 500 is as good as
the top-of-the-line 25mhz Amiga 3000 for that particular application.
(Actually, the A3000 could do it faster with the CPU than the A500
could do it with the blitter, but that's another tale). Now, if Commodore
ever releases a high-speed chipset, that story would change radically...

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