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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
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Date: 13 Jun 91 14:31:17 GMT
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Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
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rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>
>No they are not hacks, they are clever optimizations. Marc, I'd hate
>to see you EVER design a computer system. Your answer to every problem would
>be brute force brute cost approach. A flicker-fixer is much cheaper
>than redesigning the whole chipset for twice the speed. The flicker
>fixer works, so what's your point? If something works and gets the
>job done cheaper and quicker I call it brilliant.
>

The flicker fixer IS a total hack, not to mention the biggest ripoff in
the history of computer hardware.  Just think: if you have an IBM you can
get a VGA card that produces a 72Hz 1024x768 non-interlaced 256 color
display (as well as a dozen other resolutions) for $175, and if you have
an Amiga, it'll cost you $300 to "fix" your 640x400 screen.  What's wrong
with this picture?

>
>You wanna talk about SUPER KLUDGES, go bash Microsoft windows. It gets
>the hall of fame kludge award for layering multitasking and GUI ontop of
>MS-DOS. 2) place runner up is Multifinder/Switcher.
>

You know nothing about Windows or MultiFinder, so stop parading your
ignorance.  Besides, MultiFinder works, so what's your point (I'm using
your own logic here)?  If it gets the job done, it's brilliant, isn't it?
That IS what you said, no?

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