Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!kennels!sbeagle From: sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz (Sleeping Beagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Blitter vs. 040 (was: Computer Architecture question Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 23:32:56 GMT References: <28Va32w162w@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us> Organization: Orb Systems Unlimited, NZ Lines: 31 judge@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (rory toma) writes: > mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) writes: > > > In article <1991May18.104457.28023@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hacker > > > > > >Depends on the graphics. No point in using the 68040 to scroll console win > > >if the blitter is already doing it as fast as you can go. I use the chip t > > >doing it fast enough. The CHIP bus is already full anyway, remember. Might > > >well tow it with the pickup as the ferrari. > > > > > > > Personally, I would vote for using the '040 (or even the 030). I use an > > Amiga 3000 daily at work and the graphics feel very slow. All the work we > > is in high resolution, interlaced 16 color mode, though. The rest of the > > comuter is realy fast, but moving winows, drawing lines, an refreshing the > > display feels very slow - especially when compared to the speed of the disp > > of some other nameless computer... > > Then use the '030! There are a few PD programs out there that allow you > to do just that. You're right, I just installed a program called CPUBlit and it speeds up text scrolling in things like CLI windows by at least a factor of two. Yay! Sleeping Beagle (aka Thomas Farmer) sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz Ph. +64-4-796306 (voice) "You ain't nothin' but a Hound Dog." With this much posting, I must be a Post, Post Modern Man.