Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:4719 comp.sys.mac.system:7805 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <1991Jun27.120938.25102@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Date: 27 Jun 91 12:09:38 GMT References: <1991Jun26.230459.19455@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun27.005059.11450@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun27.033737.19606@neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 20 In article <1991Jun27.033737.19606@neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes: > feature of being able to have different video attributes on > each screen, is this really so much different from the Mac > feature of being able to selectively hide applications (in > System 7)? Yes. It's faster. A lot faster. Fast enough that even on a 7 MHz 68000 the time to swap screens is invisible to the user. On the Mac, even juggling apps is slow enough to drive me bats (at least on Mac-II and lower class machines) I can't imagine how it'd be like if the app had to repaint *all* its windows instead of just the ones that had been obscured. Until we have infinitely fast processors, faster implementations of an interface may in practice operate differently enough to be effectively a different interface. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"