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From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Instant Windows (making the copper/blitter obsolete)
Message-ID: <4943@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 88 14:36:14 GMT
References: <2007@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <603@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
Lines: 17
Summary: I want one, I want one!

In article <603@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, Randell Jesup
(beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP) writes:

> . . .
> Remember that the amiga is using a 16-bit bus, at 7Mhz, and an old technology
> chip (the blitter).  Think about the posibility of a 32-bit blitter, running
> at 14Mhz (or better), with new (faster) technology, and if you really want
> all-out performance, use a blitter per bitplane.

I'm thinking, I'm thinking!  Drool, drool, drool. . .

					Steve Rice

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