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From: kris@tpki.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
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Date: 15 May 91 18:54:54 GMT
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melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>Is the Amiga OS written in C?

Yes.

Except for the scheduler. This part of the OS is, if present, always written
in native machine language.

>How well will the blitter work
>with a 50 mip CPU?

Fine. If your CPU is faster than your blitter, go and emulate the blitter in
software. This is no loss in speed, because the blitter does work in
hardware, which had otherwise to be done in software anyway.

This is no problem at all.

Kristian

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