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From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga basher
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.033035.21572@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 14 Jun 91 03:30:35 GMT
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genius@cs.mcgill.ca (Michel NGUYEN) writes:

>Do you know why "they" spend 3/4s of the CPU for graphics and I/O and the 
>Amiga's don't? Remove the graphics/sound/bus/... coprocessors from the Amiga

Why would anyone want to do that? 

>and let's see how it's going to behave this time. Or add the appropriate
>coprocessors to the other ones (system) and compare.

Yes, this would be a good idea.

>About multitasking, I want to know what you are using multitasking for??
>Do you use it a lot?? I know I could not live without multitasking, but

I don't know about him, but I use it a lot. Mostly to text process/program,
while I convert something(pictures from GIF to whatever, read ftp'ed stuff
from 720 kb PC disks to my harddisk, or) or raytrace. Playing games while
the computer is doing some of this, is not impossible(and would not be either
on PC's / Macs, if they could multitask, and will be possible, as soon as
they go multitasking). If you want scrolling shootemups of course, but playing
adventures/roleplaying games does not need much processor time. 

>very often (when I do serious work), I want my computations to take 
>exactly 20 minutes and not 30-40 minutes because I am playing some

If playing tetris takes half the processing power of your computer, I
feel sorry for you(I suppose you mean Amiga).

>As I said, go look around. Check out the softwares and hardwares of the other
>systems (especially the Mac and PeeCee) NOW on the market. You will 
>be surprised. And what is/are your criterion/a to say one graphic system 
>is better than the other ?? The Amiga community is better to get moving and
>get out now from their hibernation state if they want to keep their domination
>in the multimedia field. Waiting until july would be too late.

Why didn't you do multimedia back in 86 ? It has been 5 years for you to
start...   Funny thing this multimedia, I find/have no use for it, yet.

>either the Amiga or the NeXTstation. They chose the NeXTstations. 

I'd like to have a NeXT too, but doesn't they cost money? And where are
the colours. They are coming, aren't they?(This is a question, not a flame.
I wouldn't know it even if they had had colours for years)

>Don't get me wrong here, I like the Amiga (esp. for games), and I know 
>its potentials and capabilities, and so the potentials and capabilities 
>of the other systems.

>No flames intended, although I realize that responding to the article is a
>declaration of war by itself. So... Lt. Worf, shields up, and prepare the
>phasers.

If you do not split up the Enterprise, you miss the full potential of the
Battle section...


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                      Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department
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