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In article <436boo$3hd@tst.hk.super.net>,
Dr. Cheung Ngai-tsung <cheungnt@ha.org.hk> wrote:
>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. 

By the way, do you know how to turn on opaque window movement (as opposed
to that ugly "rubber-bandiing") on the Mac?  I've never been able to
figure it out. Do Macs come with hardware that accelerates operations
like drawing lines, circles, polygons and copying regions? It seems
that even the higher-end Macs are really slow in screen updates.

A while ago I was using a 7100 with 16MB RAM running _only_ Photoshop
and nothing else, with no extensions (I rebooted with extensions
disabled).  Not only did I notice that the frame buffer updates are
slow, but when I used Photoshop's brush, it skipped and jerked around
like crazy!  On the other hand, xpaint running under Linux on a 486/33
with 8MB RAM running that X behemoth can draw 200-pixel wide brush
strokes without missing a heartbeat while running all kinds of daemons
in the background---that's with a really bad Trident SVGA video card, too.

What kind of video hardware do stock Power Macintosh computers come with?
What are the replacement options?
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