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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE HAD BETTER GET WIT THE PROGRAM!! (Was: Re: Commodore Business Machines)
Message-ID: <14265@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 91 17:52:35 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.125036.28131@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>In article <14248@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) writes:
>>Let's say Apple stuck an AMD 29000 chip into every Mac to speed up graphics.

  ^^^^^^^^^  We are for-saying, see.  I never said that this was reality, this
  is an EXAMPLE....

>>Except that their operating system would need to be rewritten to support it --
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>   Why would the operating system need to be rewritten to support the 

It's already been done, but what I was saying is -- "suppose that it were true
that..."  Get it?

>>Or, perhaps more realistically, they provide for DMA driven activity in their
>>top of the line model, but never updated their OS to support it....

>   All versions of the Macintosh system from 6.0.5 and up fully support DMA.

Not the IIfx's hard disk DMA, which is what I was referring to.
I've heard that it isn't even used under 7.0.  Is that true?  I hadn't
expected something that bad from them....  

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
	2.0 :: "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
Also try c186br@holden, c260-ay@ara and c184-ap@torus