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- From: wahlmann@voronoi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 16:25:55 GMT
- Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
- Sender: wahlmann@informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
- Message-ID: <4h1vmj$fg3@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
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- In article <oj6viksh27w.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>, koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
- |>
- |> egilberg@oslonett.no (Einar Bergsmo Gilberg) wrote:
- |>
- |> > In the PC, the mainprocessor does all the work. This is right, isn't
- |> > it?
- |>
- |> No.
-
- To be more specific than Steve, a PC lacks some of the custom chips the amiga
- owns.
-
- Floppy and (E)IDE access is done via bios instead of DMA (in most cases),
- soundcards are commanded through interrupts, gfx card support depends on the
- driver, mouse comes through serial port which is a bit fuzzy compared to the
- gameport mouse of the Amiga. A PC gfx card lacks sprites in general or, if they
- are there, they're not supported by the OS and the driver. So the mouse pointer
- is much smoother on an Amiga.
-
- All in all the Amiga system is much more homogen than the average PC which
- results in a better overall performance relative to processing power.
-
- In simple words: a PC needs much more recources and processing power to get the
- smoothness of an Amiga at lower speeds.
-
- Proof is simple: just try it.
-
- Juergen.
-