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Article #23166Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon
From: Leo Hendry
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:27
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:27
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In article <1993Jan22.162113.13989@bsu-ucs> 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes: > >can someone make a list of typical sorts of programs that would be really >"memory-intensive" so as to really suffer from this 16-bit memory bus? > > -Matt Programs that should be using the blitter, but don't. Eg. copying areas of memory, drawing sprites, scrolling in a window, etc. (The blitter has 32-bit access and is faster at doing this sort of thing anyway). - Leo
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!dcs.warwick.ac.uk!leo From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) Subject: Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon Message-ID: <1993Jan25.112726.11738@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Sender: news@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: stone Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England References: <1993Jan20.194026.25748@westminster.ac.uk> <11809@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1993Jan22.162113.13989@bsu-ucs> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:27:26 GMT Lines: 13