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- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: 04 Mar 1996 13:05:23 -0700
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- In-reply-to: wahlmann@voronoi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de's message of 28 Feb 1996 16:25:55 GMT
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- wahlmann@voronoi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262)) wrote:
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- > In simple words: a PC needs much more recources and processing power
- > to get the smoothness of an Amiga at lower speeds.
-
- There ya go. I think this is true.
-
- But I don't think it is because of the Amiga using multiple special
- purpose processors. PCs do that also; they have hardware that stomps
- all over any Amiga hardware you can possibly buy no matter how rich you
- are. They have blitters and sound chips; the main CPU doesn't blit and
- doesn't make noise. They even have 3D graphics hardware such as OpenGL
- accelerators that you simply can't get for the Amiga.
-
- You have to attribute the difference mainly to the OS, I believe.
- AmigaOS is remarkably efficient at many things. Windows is remarkably
- bad. Well, 3.1 is *breathtakingly* bad, while 95 is merely bad.
-
- But that efficiency notwithstanding, there are some things PCs are just
- faster at, period. An efficient OS cannot always make up for a 20 or 30
- or 40X performance difference in the hardware.
-
- - steve
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