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

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From: Derick J.R. Qua-Gonzalez
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 04:42

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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.


What one forgot to mention is that the Amiga, since day one (A1000) had
Agnus, Denise and Paula. Three ASICs that do display acceleration, and
one of these operations is bitblt. Such hardware is not present in a
stock Mac.

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