Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Dr. Cheung Ngai-tsung
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 10:28

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Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:

: The Amiga O/S provides a much more responsive environment than the Macintosh
: does, even on much smaller and less powerful systems. The first comparison
: I did was between an Amiga 1000 (7 MHz 68000, plus blitter) with a Mac SE
: (68020 or 68030 at 16 MHz). For ordinary window operations the Amiga was
: faster, for application startup the Amiga was faster, and overall it was
: more responsive.

Totally bogus argument.

First of all the Mac SE was a 68000, and if my memory has not corrupted,
also running at 8MHz. 

Secondly, I fail to see how "ordinary window operations" back in 1986
would could have been faster because of PMT.  The Mac doing "ordinary
window operations" isn't task switching.  While you're doing those
operations, you have the whole machine.  The blitter might have been the
difference. 


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N.T. Cheung
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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
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