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From: bret@orac.UUCP (Bret Indrelee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
Summary: Power of '30 in '85
Message-ID: <325@orac.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 91 01:52:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: orac.325
References: <mykes.2516@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> <en8Hs$m2@cs.psu.edu> <1991May14.125542.9479@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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In article <1991May14.125542.9479@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <en8Hs$m2@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>> Amiga is great, I can't easily refute it?  Correct.  When people tell
>> me that the blitter awesome, but then we find out that it is
>> equivalent to a 68030 in processing power.  Don't worry I'm learning.
>
>68030 processing power in a $500 machine is indeed awesome.
>
><peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
The Amiga came out in '85.  There were not any '30 based anything then.
Also, the blitter takes care of graphics.  I know I can find a better
use for the '30 CPU than drawing characters on the screen.

Hopefully, (hint, hint) C= will come out with a blitter with a 32 bit
data bus soon.  Right now, the blitter with a 16 bit data bus is about
as fast as a '30 using 32-bit accesses.


The blitter is great.  Just ask the graphics guru's.  I have notes from
a SIGGRAPH '84 class on using the blitbit primitive to do all kinds of
great stuff.  The TI chips that lots of graphics boards use as processors
have a blitbit operation.  Amiga had it in '85.  In silicon.  On a
personal computer.

-Bret

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