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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac ][ bashing
Message-ID: <8808061931.AA02869@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 6 Aug 88 19:31:36 GMT
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>In article <3093@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes:
>>I wrote:
>>> The Mac ][ still can't animate worth a pint of sour owl shit.
>>> 
>>Why?
>
>No blitter.

	Well, theoretically, it *can* take a blitter, but the standard
video boards don't come with any.  I dunno who the idiots were who thought
they could give a machine 8 bit planes and then not give it a blitter so it
write to those planes fast.

	Though the Atari and Mac pointedly ignore or criticize our blitter,
it really makes working with graphics on the Amiga *NICE* *AND* *FAST*.

Add a couple of more:

	-You need *A LOT* of memory to do anything useful

	-It doesn't multitask worth a pint of sour owl shit either, though it
	 seems to be acceptable to the Mac users (better than what they had
	 before anyway).

	In fact, the only two things the Mac has that the Amiga needs is a
resource system and generalized printer/graphics interface.  The Amiga is
very close to the latter (HEY COMMODORE, HOW ABOUT A CALL THAT RETURNS THE
# OF CHARACTER COLUMNS AND ROWS PER SHEET IN THE CURRENT PITCH????????).
I'm working on a generalized virtual vectror-oriented graphics space that can
handle arbitrary scaling over a 2^32x2^32 graphics space, you think that's
enough?  Resources to...  And a more generalized filesystem interface (domain
system that encompasses *ALL* IO devices).

						-Matt