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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Yet Another Baseless Rumor
Message-ID: <2087@pur-phy>
Date: 30 Mar 89 14:53:54 GMT
References: <2464@tank.uchicago.edu> <1377@taux01.UUCP> <4252fa64.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <4252fa64.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (billkatt) writes:
>In article <1377@taux01.UUCP> cyosta%taux01@nsc.COM ( Yossie Silverman ) writes:
>>I heard from a friend who knows people that the Mac IIxE is to be introduced
>>later this year.  It will feature a 33Mhz 68030, all the goodies in the
>>current new macs AND a RISC (88000 I would assume) QuickDraw processor.

>The Quickdraw processor is an AMD 27000, not an 88000, an 88000 costs MUCH
>too much to use as a co-processor.

So, how much of a speedup should we expect for graphics intensive operations?
Is the AMD 27000 going to be only as fast as the 68030 (speed increase only
because the CPU can do other things in the meantime) or significantly faster?
As 32 bit quickdraw approaches, this becomes very important.  How fast would
a full screen redraw be with 24 bits on a 19" monitor?

Also, what Quickdraw calls will the processor handle?  Probably bit blits
for sure, but will it do all the funky region stuff as well?  Also, are
there any rumors about the progress of NuGraph?  What new routines will
be added?  Will it be interpereted (ugh) like postscript?  Etc.  Youth
wants to know.

-Sho