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- From: scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray)
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- Subject: Re: Possible loss of the Copper (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 13:53:06 GMT
- Organization: Micro Focus, Newbury UK
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- In article <4iu7hb$utt@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca says...
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- >Would there be a way to make a copper.library or copper API?
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- Of course. wether it would work as well as out existing copper is up to the
- hardware under it.
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- >>The thing that makes the Amiga viable is the OS. No other machine runs with
- so
- >>little resources at such speed. The chips are secondary. Noone cares whats
- >>under the hood these days. They just want good fast software for as little
- >>cost as possible. This is what the Amiga does best and always has.
- >
- >Ahh.. but is this not partially due to the chipset and how much the OS
- >and chipset interact with each other?
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- Not really. The chipset allows greater perceived performance on a low end cpu
- but you have to question that strategy when you can buy cheaper faster CPU's
- and cheaper faster graphics chips off the shelf. Custom hardware was an
- advantage in the 80's. It's holding the Amiga back now.
-
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- Shaun C. Murray | e-mail: scm@mfltd.co.uk
- Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, UK. | www: http://www.mfltd.co.uk/~scm/
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