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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
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Date: 17 May 91 07:24:15 GMT
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Quoted from <5+aHafz4@cs.psu.edu> by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger):
> I know that the Amiga 500 can do better animation, I have said that
> myself in several posts.  Why isn't it as good is of great interest to
> me.  One big problem with the NeXT is that the Mach kernal can't be

    This is the wrong newsgroup to be expressing such interests. Ask the
    other NeXT folks.

    If the OS cripples something as basic as animation, then what else
    must be crippled too, and only acceptable because the CPU is
    relatively fast?

> knew that it wasn't since 1(I do have an A2500 behind me).  Many Amiga
> users seem to think that 20 or 30fps is impossible on the NeXT.  I

    I'm sure we all believe it's possible, once you turf out the OS and
    beef up the display. From what you've been saying, it appears even
    640K PClones with VGA animate better than a NeXT.

> -Mike
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