Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX in PCW Message-ID: <13645@uwm.edu> Date: 30 Jun 91 22:28:43 GMT References: Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 31 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article , by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): > How fast is the Amiga windowing system when you are in the > million-pixel display mode with 2 bit color and 12 bit color? I wouldn't know. But to the average end user, which is all that's important, my WB seems faster than your... WB. I'm not talking about addons, or extra hardware. A 500 dollar amiga seems faster than the next at school, even if the reason perhaps lies behind the size of the screen... > How much more? 25% more? I dunno. Of course, that's why I asked for someone to compare. :) > Well pull out that Macintoy and notice that when you drag the windows > around that you are only moving the outline of the window, not the > window itself. > > -Mike Point taken, but the result is the same. Of course, when I speak of the mac being faster, that's on a IIcx. It might actually be slower on a 7.0 68000 system. Greg -- Socrates: "I drank WHAT????" LMFAP: "Next time you see me, it won't be me." Wubba: "A dream is nothing more than a wish dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with a little imagination." (From my poem, "A Dream") -Wubba