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- From: Lars Nelson <lars@infohwy.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 21:44:45 -0600
- Organization: InfoHighway INternational, INc
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- Steve Koren wrote:
-
- > Sigh. The Amiga's custom chips do little except slow it down right now.
- > The Amiga's "smoothness and speed" gets vastly better once you *stop*
- > using the custom graphics chips, for example. Even run-of-the-mill PC
- > graphics chips are 40 to 60X faster than AGA for many things.
-
- The custom chips and multi-tasking work together for smooth
- and fast operation. The current chip-set is old, that is why it is
- relatively slow compared to current CPU clock speeds.
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