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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 21 Jun 91 05:39:40 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

">And why do you think that is? Try installing a video card to control the
>monitor and you'll see about a three-fold improvement! The Mac IIci's
>built-in video is S-L-O-W, so why are you using it? It was meant only for
>those without the money for a video card, although if you don't have cash
>what are you doing with a IIci anyway?
 
I want to get this straight ..
 
So Apple entices people into buying machines by offering `low' prices.
But because they're too lazy to design correctly you get inferior
performance?  And then they nickle & dime you into the poor house
in an attempt to get good performance?"

No, you don't have it right. The whole problem is that it doesn't have
its own VRAM to work with, but instead uses the (slower) DRAM on the bus
(bank A) and thus locks that bank out of the CPUs reach during access by
the built-in video. THAT's the problem. Of course, they COULD'VE included
its own VRAM, but then it wouldn't be as low-cost.