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- From: fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: intuition inefficient ?
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 04:05:36 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- I just had a big flame with my friend, a PCer (he told about DOS & Win
- for competing with Kickstart in doing rastersplitfree animations :D ).
-
- Well, another thing, intuition seems to update mouse coordinates
- in each screen and win struc while unix handles this with function
- calls... kickstart inefficient ? he also flamed the fact you can't
- copy a screenstructure and use that one for the functions, like
- in linux.
-
- I told him his gfx-lib would run best on kickstart when doing tripple
- buffering. He answered, so what, it would run better on a C64 than
- on PC lacking vblank features ;) But slower...
-
- My argument was, that a given hardware, if supplying all those goodies
- like vblank interrupt and timers would run animations best with
- kickstart. His re was that future Win versions might also support this
- and that kickstart isn't portable due to its features. Well, a Win
- version using vblank would need something more than a PC, something
- with a blank interrupt. An Amiga, for example ;)
- So the "new windoze" would be as inportable as kickstart...
-
- We flamed what's more likely, kickstart getting mem protection features
- or win getting vblank features ;)
- I can't believe they'll ever implement those nice little things A500
- already had (vblank & stuff) into PC hardware _and_ the OSes (win, linux).
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