Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: 8-bit death Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 07:10:05 GMT References: <3330.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1089@stewart.UUCP> <3760.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991May18.105916.28180@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 30 In article <1991May18.105916.28180@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <3760.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: >> Quoted from <1089@stewart.UUCP> by jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel): >> > I guess you think that SYSVR4 is not worthwhile? > >> Not if it runs on an Intel CPU. > >Who cares who makes the CPU? If you're programming in a real language and a >real operating system the CPU is just another resource. What color it's painted >is no more important than the company that manufactures the case. > >One big reason I got an Amiga is that it was the first personal computer that >didn't force me into writing assembly. Now, people still do that, but that's >their problem. They'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. Assembler language programmers have been porting to other CPUs for years by writing translators that work on the source level. Ends up being as little work as porting a 'C' program (even between different compilers on the SAME machine). And it doesn't matter if you call BlitBitMap(), because you won't find it on any other platform... Nice try Peter :) -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************