Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cadnetix.COM!cadnetix!childs From: childs@cadnetix.COM (David Childs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Memory and the A2024 Hedley monitor. Message-ID: <3608@cadnetix.COM> Date: 15 Aug 88 21:49:06 GMT References: <8808060100.AA11069@jade.berkeley.edu> <3550@cadnetix.COM> <2746@amiga.UUCP> <11731@cisunx.UUCP> Sender: news@cadnetix.COM Reply-To: childs@cadnetix.COM (David Childs) Organization: Cadnetix Corp., Boulder, CO Lines: 23 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. David Childs Internet: childs@cadnetix.COM Cadnetix Corp UUCP: cadnetix!childs 5775 Flatiron Pkwy {uunet,boulder,nbires}!cadnetix!childs Boulder, CO 80301