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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice 4.0 versus Manx 3.4, and Monitors
Message-ID: <1296@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 12:37:52 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Apples and Oranges

First of all, the latest Manx (so new it's not even here yet :->) is 3.6,
not 3.4. The source level debugger is a 3.6 enhancement.

Secondly, forget benchmarks. I'm sure you could come up with a Seive
that used the blitter. Does that mean the Amiga as a 10 MIPS machine?
Take a real program and compare its speed under both. I'd suggest something
large, portable, and CPU-bound. Like ADVSYS.

Finally, what features do the two variants give you? What features do you
want?

As for the monitor, I believe it takes a 4 bitplane screen, pulls out the
bitplanes, and sticks them next to each other. Suitably scrolled, of course,
so they all fit into one bitmap.
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