Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ames!killer!elg From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Mac ][ bashing Message-ID: <5176@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 12 Aug 88 05:36:26 GMT References: <590@super.ORG> <5125@gryphon.CTS.COM> <3093@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <5152@gryphon.CTS.COM> Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 19 Distribution: Keywords: Summary: Expires: Sender: Reply-To: Followup-To: In message <5152@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) says: >In article <3093@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes: >>I wrote: >>> The Mac ][ still can't animate worth a pint of sour owl shit. >>> >>Why? > >No blitter. > Also because the video boards don't have enough memory for double-buffering, and Color QuickDraw is BOG SLOW (30 seconds to display a 256-color full-screen picture... sheesh!). Going straight to the hardware is, of course, faster, but still isn't super-fast.... and opens the compatibility can of worms. -- Eric Lee Green ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.