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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!dcs.warwick.ac.uk!leo
  3. From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
  4. Subject: Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.112726.11738@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
  6. Sender: news@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Network News)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: stone
  8. Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
  9. References: <1993Jan20.194026.25748@westminster.ac.uk> <11809@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1993Jan22.162113.13989@bsu-ucs>
  10. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:27:26 GMT
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  13. In article <1993Jan22.162113.13989@bsu-ucs> 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
  14. >
  15. >can someone make a list of typical sorts of programs that would be really
  16. >"memory-intensive" so as to really suffer from this 16-bit memory bus?
  17. >
  18. >                -Matt
  19.  
  20. Programs that should be using the blitter, but don't.
  21. Eg. copying areas of memory, drawing sprites, scrolling in a window, etc.
  22. (The blitter has 32-bit access and is faster at doing this sort of thing
  23. anyway).
  24.  
  25. - Leo
  26.