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- From: gordonf@monashee.sfu.ca (Gordon Farrell)
- Subject: Re: Good old Darek
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.225438.28925@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <4JAN93.09101838@cc4.crl.aecl.ca>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:54:38 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <4JAN93.09101838@cc4.crl.aecl.ca> csullogg@cc4.crl.aecl.ca writes:
- [...]
- >
- >Another thing that really annoys me is how stupid an Atari ST user pretends
- >to be when it comes to bitching about the redraw speed of Windows. Ok,
- >grade 4 math. The screen resolution of the ST in color is what? 320x200
- >in 16 colors. 320x200*4/8 = 32000 bytes of screen memory. A PC running
- >Windows is typically running what, a VGA. 640x480*4/8 = 153600 bytes of
- >screen memory. That's almost a 5:1 increase in screen resolution, which
- >duh, required either 5 times longer or 5 times the processor speed to
- >redraw compared to your ST. If you compared oranges to oranges, you'd find
- >that Windows isn't that slow after all. The closest thing to VGA mode on
- >the ST is TT medium resolution on the TT. Actually, TT medium resolution
- >IS EXACTLY the same as VGA mode. Boot up a TT and compare redraw speeds of
- >ST monochrome mode (640x400 mono) and TT medium resolution (640x480 16 colors).
- >Surprise, Surprise, you'll see a major speed difference. Look at the Mac,
- >it has very fast redraws compared to the ST, but that's because Macs had
- >the smaller 512x384 screen which only require about 20K of screen memory.
- >
- [...]
- >- Darek
-
- While I'll admit to not having used PC VGA much, I do know about the speed
- of TT medium. Its not slow. I'd say that it's speed is better than
- ST medium (even faster with Warp 9). Actually, the speed is better than all
- of the ST resolutions on an ST, though ST high is a close call.
-
- ________________________________________________________________________________
- Gordon Farrell |e-mail:gfarrell@cs.sfu.ca |"Shee, you guys are so unhip
- | gordonf@sfu.ca | it's a wonder your bums
- Simon Fraser University | | don't fall off."
- Burnaby, B.C., Canada | | -Zaphod Beeblebrox
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