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From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard)
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Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 12 Jun 91 20:30:17 GMT
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In article <44@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>Responding to the following:
>
>"Yes, why, I wouldn't know either.  The displays would crawl.  Since only one
>graphics coprocessor could be active, the six displays would just bog the
>system down horrendously (at least in 24 bit and 8 bit modes).  Perhaps in
>1, 2 and maybe 4 bit modes you'd get acceptable speed out of them, though."
>
>You don't know what you're talking about. Each monitor is controlled by its
>own video board and given its own portion of the bitmap only. Try not to
>relate Amiga problems with the Macintosh world.

The Mac would slow down because all graphics are done by the CPU.  If and
only if you have every board with a cpu to support drawing on it would you
NOT have the graphics slow to a crawl.  Just adding video boards will
slow down a Mac.  Increasing screen size or color depth slows down a Mac.
Add a 19" screen to a Mac SE w/out adding an accelerator and see how slow
it gets.

BTW - Not every machine fits everyone's needs.

Make something an idiot can use and only an idiot will use it.  (Mac)

I'm going home to play on my NeXT.  For now the fastest CISC machine around.

                    KeNT - happy NeXT owner/developer
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