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From: cheung@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Wilson Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Blitter vs. 80386
Keywords: Which is faster?
Message-ID: <1800@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU>
Date: 10 Aug 88 18:18:24 GMT
Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
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	Recently I got in 3 Zenith 386 PC's.  Well  I installed windows 386
and was surprised how quickly it updated its windows after resizing.  I was able
to quickly flip back and forth through all pull down menus at random and 
windows was able to keep up.  Then I ran a line drawing demo, similar to the
one for the Amiga; the lines in windows seemed to just flash on the screen
simultaneously rather than sequentially.
	This rather impressive speed causes me to wonder which is actually 
faster in animations, a 16 Mhz 386 with no wait state 32- bit memory and
a 256K EGA card or the blitter on the Amiga.  Ah, remember the days in which
I was proud to own a hot machine called the Amiga.  Now a days I am embarrassed
to say the name Amiga in the same breath of IBM PC.  Being an EE student
mentioning the Amiga is seems a sure ticket for some substantial joking 
ridicule.  "Oh, and here is my 386 machine with 287 coprocessor, 2 Meg of 
RAM, VGA card and Zenith flat screen VGA monitor.  Hey what's that sorry
linking terminal in the corner."
: a a a its an amiga
Hey isn't that one of those game machines.  Say what's it doing in your office
your supposed to be working not playing! 

: And in a futile attempt to show the serious side of the Amiga I pop up
WordPerfect, Diga, and Maxiplan

Hey why does that display look so crappy.  Why is the disk drive so slow? 
Why is text so slow?  The windows and multi-tasking hardly gets noticed and 
they walk away losing interest.


	Well, I'm getting a bit sidetracked.  The question I'd like to 
post for discussion is whether an Amiga could hold up to a 386 computer
with proper NTSC interfacing and similar animation software.