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- From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
- Subject: Re: 32 bit Quickdraw on a Plus----QUESTION
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.034705.30116@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1992Sep4.144322.17454@unlinfo.unl.edu> <1992Sep8.150041.1@idicl1.idi.battelle.org> <1992Sep11.161141.3985@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:47:05 GMT
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- There is supposedly "no point" in making an 8Mhz 68000-based color
- quickdraw. The bus on the Mac II and higher machines has at least 4
- times the throughput of the MacPlus bus. This means that, in 8-bit
- color mode, the Mac II draws at (approximately) 50% of the speed of
- the plus. Color Quickdraw makes use of the 680x0 (x >= 20) bit field
- instructions to speed things up, esp. in 2-bit and 4-bit mode. You
- would need some advanced dithering algorithms to be able to view color
- in black/white on a plus (maybe a 50% hit in performance, in the best
- case). The Mac II is a slow machine (for handling 8-bit color). The
- plus is an even slower machine.
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- Would you enjoy editing dithered grey-scale
- on a mac plus at 1/8th the speed of a mac II?
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- I think people would go berserk if forced to live with this.
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- Don Gillies - gillies@cs.uiuc.edu - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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