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From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How 'Bout HyperCard!
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Date: 16 May 88 19:09:27 GMT
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Karl says:

>We're not talking absolute CPU cycles here, except in the rarest cases, 
>we're talking "How fast is it to use the machine?" and if you use the two 
>machines to actually DO anything, I mean like click open drawers and move
>windows around and run real programs, you'll never notice the 11% faster
>CPU clock: the Amiga just blows the ST away.  (I, too, own both.)

The thing that ST fans miss when they point out the faster cpu on the
ST is that the Amiga has *twice* the memory bandwidth...16Mhz. And
it is used by the blitter, which is itself much more efficient of memory
bandwidth than the 68000 (at simple pixel operations as used in e.g.
windowing).

This is regularly pointed out, but word never reaches the ST mainstream,
and so the Amiga continues to be bad mouthed.

I think that there are perfectly good reasons to buy and enjoy an ST;
I just wish the Tramiels wouldn't use such low mudslinging tactics to
sell them.
	Doug