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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: CHIP RAM speed test resul
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 13:24:09 +0200
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4jtn4p$qg4@serpens.rhein.de>
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- bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti) writes:
-
- >What do you do with 50MB/sec of "transfer rate"? Just *transfer* animations?
- >Maybe from your 600K/sec CD? Or you render gfx on screen? Making with the
- >CPU most of the job that a video device should do.
-
- "should do" ? That's ideology. There is nothing wrong with the CPU
- doing calculations and that includes rendering. And if the CPU is faster
- as your special purpose hardware then you need very much of your
- ideology to justify the special purpose hardware.
-
- >A lot of people are convinced that stealing the SVGA board from a PC and
- >putting it into their 50Mhz Amiga will make it fly. Actually, it will make
- >it *much* slower for everything that is not Doom,
-
- Why ? Close to everything will be faster.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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