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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Blitter vs. 040 (was: Computer Architecture question
Message-ID: <1991May18.105208.28098@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
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Date: Sat, 18 May 1991 10:52:08 GMT

> No, you were right the first time.  An 040 Amiga *will* have 4*N mips,
> with N of those mips dedicated to graphics.  The system seems like it
> will be a little unbalanced to me.

I know Steve Jobs said that a computer should use 75% of its CPU for the
user interface, but that doesn't mean we all believe that. The Amiga has
always provided more CPU for real applications than any machine in its
class, simply because it has a blitter.

Yes, it's a little unbalanced. Not as badly as the NeXT, but some.

> That's 57mips for $12K.  It's not going to be 2005, it's going to be
> in two years.  Hell, expect at least 30 mips NeXT year from several
> vendors in < $10K computers.

Fine. But what will be available in < $2K computers?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
