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From: childs@cadnetix.COM (David Childs)
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Subject: Re: Memory and the A2024 Hedley monitor.
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Date: 15 Aug 88 21:49:06 GMT
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In article <11731@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>How do these work?  Are X and NeWS for the unreleased UN*X system, or do
>they run under/over/beside AmigaDos?  Just what is it that they do?
>Eric Kennedy
>ejkst@cisunx.UUCP

I'm not 100% sure about NeWS, but I believe both run under AmigaDOS.  Or
along side if you wish.  Dale Luck said that X had 16 built-in bitmap
handling functions that happened to correspond to 16 functions that the blitter
already did.  He only had to have a lookup table of the 16 functions, and
called the appropriate blitter routines.

He said because of the blitter, Amiga X would run faster than X on a Sun 3/50,
and because of the lack of UNIX overhead, Amiga X could run as much as 4 times
faster on a 68000 Amiga than a Sun 3/50.  (User interface routines and screen
stuff, update window, etc.)

I really like UNIX, but I love the real-timelyness of AmigaDOS.

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