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- From: pelbe01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Martin Brenner)
- Subject: Re: Hardware hacking....
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:12:48 GMT
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- In <S37732V.92Dec11174750@lk-hp-7.hut.fi> s37732v@snakemail.hut.fi (Markus Juhani Aalto) writes:
-
- >Some hardware hackers here said that it's at least 50% slower to use OS
- >than go directly to the HW. I don't believe this, but lets just pretend
- >this is the case. Then now that A1200 is from 2 to 5 times faster than
- >old A500, that 50% is recovered. And your code should be even faster with
- >A1200 through OS than with A500 directly through Hardware.
-
- >And because you can't use AGA with lower
- >than 68020, then there is enough power to code with OS. But it requires
- >KS3.0.
-
- Wrong. You might want to use higher resolutions and more bitplanes.
- Thats what AGA is for. But OS 3.0 has features that make using the
- OS faster.
-
- Not supporting hardware banging...
- -Martin
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- Martin Brenner, Institut f. Theoretische Astrophysik, Universitaet Tuebingen
- brenner@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de <Deepthought the Nightfall Sourcerer>
- DISCLAIMER: I take no responsibility whatsoever for any damage done to your
- monitor or mind resulting from your reading this article.
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