Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Blitter vs. 040 (was: Computer Architecture question Message-ID: <1991May16.215737.7248@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 21:57:37 GMT In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > Hmmm. 1+1 != 3. You could have the 68040 do the graphical work then > do the calculations then do the graphical work all in the same time > that it took the blitter to do the the graphical work and the 68030 to > do the calculations. In other words, the 68040 gets more work done in > the same period of time. And then, and then, and then...? Haven't you heard of multitasking? Lightweight processes? Threads? I know you know about them: you have a NeXT. You can have one task doing calculations with the 68040 while another task is waiting on a blit. And both tasks can be part of the same program. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .