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- From: johnsd2@vccnw01.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Macintosh bigots
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- Reply-To: johnsd2@vccnw01.its.rpi.edu.its1
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- References: <strobl.722184494@gmd.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:56:20 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article 722184494@gmd.de, strobl@gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
- >In <1ly1r_q@rpi.edu> johnsd2@jec316.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson) writes:
- >
- >>In article 722126636@gmd.de, strobl@gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
- >>>In <90x1y=d@rpi.edu> johnsd2@jec326.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson) writes:
- >>>
- >>>[...]
- >>>>>>>>(where accelerated Mac cards are usually 24 bits, as 8 bit accelerated
- >>>>>>>>is overkill; this beefs up the price of course)
- >>>>>
- >>>>>Why is this overkill? Silicon is cheap these days. Why not
- >>>>>let a specialized CPU do all the drawing, and have the main
- >>>>>CPU free for real work?
- >>>
- >>>>Its unnecessary; you could spend the money on something else.
- >>>>Memory, or a plain ticket to <insert favorite spot here>.
- >>>
- >>>I don't buy that. A CPU can do only one thing at a time. If it
- >>>is busy redrawing an 1 MPixel bitmap, it can't do anything
- >>>else at the same time. Using a general purpose CPU, which
- >>>doesn't perform that well on that special task, while there
- >>>is other work to do, is a waste of resources, IMHO.
- >
- >>Really? Isn't ANY processor doing ANYTHING a waste of resources
- >>by this argument, since it could hand off the job to specialized
- >>circuits and do something else?
- >
- >No. But having an expensive, general purpose CPU slowly perform
- >something a cheap, specialized CPU can do much faster, is a waste.
- >
-
- Really? Why would you say that? It does not seem to follow to me.
- Sounds like you are loading more work on the processor, but if it
- can handle it quickly, this is not a big deal.
-
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- - Dan Johnson
- And God said "Jeeze, this is dull"... and it *WAS* dull. Genesis 0:0
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