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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Blitter vs. 040 (was: Computer Architecture question
Message-ID: <1991May19.124802.19879@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <7haHkcs5@cs.psu.edu> <1991May18.104457.28023@sugar.hackercorp.com> <d-9H6q$7@cs.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 May 1991 12:48:02 GMT

In article <d-9H6q$7@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> I was just refering to your disdain for DOS emulators.  You seem to
> think that they are completely useless.

No, just vastly overrated. If you're buying a NeXT over an Amiga or Mac because
of SoftPC, you should be buying an Amiga or a Mac and a cheap IBM clone as
well. It'd be a better use of your resources. I have a PC clone here at home.
It runs my BBS (Taronga Park, +1 713 568 0480). Oh, and in reference to Mike
Schwartz, the BBS is written in an interpreted language. Under UNIX.

I couldn't do that in an emulator, because it has to be up all the time.

If you have an occasional need to run a DOS program, that's one thing, but
that's not a reason to buy a more expensive machine.

I'd say the same thing about AMAXX is if wasn't for the fact that you're buying
a cheaper machine to do the job. If the NuTek MacOS clone actually comes out,
I might buy AMAXX. The NuTek software sound better designed than what Apple
has found themselves with after 7 years of patches to a toaster.

> Would a blitter in the NeXT be scrolling as fast as it can?  It can
> only move data 16 bits at a time, correct?

My blitter moves 32 bits at a time. I have a 3000.

In reference to the Amiga having an entry-level machine...
> So, does the NeXT, it just costs $5000. :-)

Smiley indeed. An "entry level" machine refers to one that an average man
on the street could afford. Not the privileged elite who can get daddy
to plunk down $3000 for a NeXT, or for whom $5000 just means they'll have
to take this season's skiing vacation in Vail instead of St. Moritz. If it
lists for more than 1-2 grand it's not entry level (unless it's a car, or
a house...).

> A $999 030(32 bit bus)
> Amiga with a flicker fixer would be nice, but how long do you think it
> will be before you see one?  Perhaps if Commodore used one of Motos
> new 030's without an MMU.

I've suggested that. An MMU is of marginal value in an Amiga.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
