Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Self-modifying code
Message-ID: <4333@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 88 17:25:32 GMT
References: <1988Jul26.024039.28579@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <1988Jul26.024039.28579@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) says:
> The 630, designed rather more recently, does things the same way.  So
> do the monochrome Suns.

All the monochrome Suns-2s around here have a pretty piss-poor graphic
preformance as compared to what the Amiga does with it's blitter and
some well written code.  Not to imply that all of the Amiga's video
routines are as fast as they could be, they certainly aren't.  And the
Sun-2s are even running faster than the Amiga.  Certainly you may be
able to get better display performance out of a Sun-3, but with a fast
68020, you'd be pretty hurtin' if you couldn't.  And still, at least
with out UNIX software (I did put the "well-written" qualifier in), our
text scrolling is several time that of the Sun-3's I've seen. 

> No, they dumped the hardware assist *before* they switched to the 020,
> not after, unless I'm much mistaken.  Most of the Sun-2s (68010) had
> no hardware assist.

And as I pointed out, it shows.

> MSDOS is not dead, it just     |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
> smells that way.               | uunet!mnetor!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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