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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
Message-ID: <25780@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 29 Jun 91 22:34:11 GMT
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rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

>   I've found that not many programs use these drivers, a lot of them prefer
>to hit the VGA registers directly for some reason.

Because if you don't, you can't get decent speed out of the %(*&^% things.
VGA and SVGA are slower than you can believe, unless you've gotten one
of the super-fast, super-expensive variants.

-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us