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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 23:09:24 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: The New Ami: a right step!
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4kk5@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 09 Mar 96 "jolyon Ralph" wrote to All:
-
- >> 1. Concerning the ec030 40Mhz: This is a fairly big step up from a 020
- >> 14Mhz. Even though it can't compete with the 486's or pentiums,
-
- jR> It's a good step. But it's still a *SLOW* cpu by modern standards.
- jR> Don't tell me that it doesn't matter because the OS is leaner and faster
- jR> - it won't help your day-to-day graphics, rendering, spreadsheet,
- jR> database, etc. applications.
-
- Of course it will help those. It's about two to three times faster.
-
- jR> you're just dragging icons around the workbench all day, sure, you
- jR> don't need it.
-
- Most people just use their computer for word processing and games.
- This has been researched. Most of us render from time to time because
- we've got Amigas, but I still don't think it's a "day-to-day" task.
- (And if it is for you, boy will it be faster, using that 40 Mhz 030
- instead of a 14 Mhz 020 ;)
-
- >> If you don't like it, buy a gfx card.
-
- jR> Which card? Presumably the single slot in the new Amiga is a custom
- jR> slot (or possibly an A4000 CPU style slot). How long till we get stuff
- jR> that will fit it?
-
- True.
-
- >> 3. You can't expect Amiga-O2 3.2 to be a big step up from 3.1 Those of
- >> you who would like to have mem protection should read some of the posts
- >> explaing why this is so difficult to implement
-
- jR> I totally agree on this point. Amiga Exec is lean and efficient, and
- jR> memory protection (if it is to be 100% secure) will totally kill the
- jR> leanness and efficiency dead.
-
- Disagree here. Unix ain't that slow on my Amiga, you just need lots of
- memory to prevent swapping - but I doubt this is due to memory
- protection alone. The Amiga OS badly, sorely needs some form of memory
- protection against those @#$@ hacks that crash and take the whole
- system with it.
-
- Regards, Ruud
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