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- From: bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Haynie joins AT team
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 02:11:13 GMT
- Organization: Efficient Software Internet Service
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- Neil O'Rourke, regarding your message ' Re: Haynie joins AT team' -
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- >> It's the OS that makes the machine tick, for God's sake! A standard
- >> PClone today has 10x the CPU and graphics speed of an Amiga, but the
- >> Amiga can still do things those PClones can't. Why? Because of the OS.
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- >Not quite correct ... the standard SVGA chipset can't pull tricks like
- >draggable screens, screens of different resoultions etc on the one monitor
- >and the like. These nice feaures of the Amiga are a result of the
- >hardware.
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- Maybe not (no need; their os's are not capable). But they can play MPEG
- films at full speed using the card, render 50 zillion goroud shaded
- polygons per second, and display true 24 bit quality at hi res.
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- Anyway, we can. I can slide two different screens around quite nicly, using
- cybergraphx. Shure, the back screen gets the same mode as the front, and it
- stuffs up the colours, but it is functional. More than whinedoze can do...
-
- I know what I'd rather have.
-
- ...... Brendan
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- "Occasionally my Universe intersects with Reality"
- - Thompson the Great, c.1996
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