Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Silver (was Re: Amiga 2000 has been swapped)
Message-ID: <4576@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 17:24:26 GMT
References: <6908@well.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <6908@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) says:

> 	A VGA bitmap is bigger than 64K.  Intel architectures tend to lose
> real big on data chunks bigger than 64K, so you'll need a very fast CPU to
> bash all the bits at a respectable speed, which won't be cheap.  The '386
> doesn't lose too bad on >64K, but they're not cheap either right now.

Unless you're running '386 UNIX or something else that uses native mode,
the '386 will loose just as bad on >64K chunks as an 80286 or 8088.  It
does have a 32 bit bus, but even that's not a critical issue in the
current systems.  About all a '386 gives you for MS-DOS computing is a
clock speed you can't get with a '286 chip yet.

> 	We're safe.  For a while....

It would be nice.  Don't know if anyone's ever safe in this industry...

> Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape	INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
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