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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software Development (was Re: AllocMem() with 16-bit Manx)
Message-ID: <1751@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 13:29:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 17 13:29:02 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 17:03:21 EDT
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Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
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In article <3941@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
.	Also, machine architectures are fundamentally different.  Whereas on
.the Amiga you have the call BltBitMap(), on the Atari you have the call
.vfocpyfm() (or some such), both of which take entirely different parameters.
.A significant fraction of your program's critical path will change
.dramatically when moving from one machine to another, so you won't really
.gain much portability by writing it in C.

This will probably be less true as soon as the Amiga port of GEM is
available.

Keith Doyle
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