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From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
Message-ID: <1991May24.062325.4703@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 24 May 91 06:23:25 GMT
References: <mykes.2516@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> <en8Hs$m2@cs.psu.edu> <1991May14.125542.9479@sugar.hackercorp.com> <325@orac.UUCP>
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bret@orac.UUCP (Bret Indrelee) writes:

>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.

Yeah, but since '85 they haven't done anything to improve it.
This is my biggest bitch about C=. Sure, they've given you an
architecture to plug in slots to improve your machine, but then
you are doing exactly what you used to abuse IBM's for, ie.
"You can get a card too........". The 3000 is a great improvement,
but having a CPU which is better than a graphics co-pro is stupid....
Will they improve. Millions of Amiga owners can only hope.

>-Bret

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>Bret Indrelee		|	<This space left intentionally blink>
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| Luke Mewburn   (Zak)                |      This side for lease...        |
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