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From: mcclend@infonode.ingr.com (William D McClendon)
Subject: NEXT 040 Amiga Blitter etc.
Message-ID: <1991May15.170848.11336@infonode.ingr.com>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 17:08:48 GMT

You people miss the point!!!!

It does not matter if the 040 is faster that the 030 + Blitter for animation
or that the Next has this combination and that the Amiga has the other.

What matters is the total system architecture!!!!!!

If a system has a fast processor but loads it with device control, I/O
bad code, whatever it will be slower that a system with dedicated coprocessors.
This is a fact of computer life.  Amiga/Commodore did not invent this, it
has been around longer than we have!  How do you think the graphics boards
for Mac's can get bigger and better without lost performance?

This is why people yell at dumb laser printers driven by the CPU!!!

Something like the blitter is for animation display, along with a FAST I/O
model.  The 040 is important for CALCULATING raytraces, animations, 
compression, etc.  Then you have to display it!!!

Flames to hell!

