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You obviously didn't own one

Although most postings I read of yours I generally agree with No_Ax_to_Grind, with this one you are way off. An AMIGA running at 16 MHz with 512K of RAM could multi-task beautifully with decent graphics and sound. Looking at Windows on Intel running at 100 MHz with 2 MBs of RAM you couldn't get the same performance. Was Windows to blame? Maybe partially, but the fact that you had to code in a way that required everything to go through the CPU it was no wonder the AMIGA performed so much better. The overall underlying architecture of the IBM PC was flawed. The MAC even though it used Motorola had the same underlying system architecture design flaw. The AMIGA's architecture is still better than anything out in the mainstream today. I suggest you take a look at the link I included in the previous message...it will give you some insight. For example..."Agnus is the central chip in the design. It controls all access to chip RAM from both the central 68000 processor and the other custom chips, using a complicated priority system." With the 3 custom chips and CPU all working together, you avoid the whole CPU bottleneck in the architectures we are stuck with today. As for Motorola chips being slow, that may have been the case but if you've ever done any Assembly programming you would know that there are design flaws in the 8086/8088 processors that had to be left in there for backwards compatibility reasons. Like so many cases over the years, its not always the best technology that wins out. In the computer world, the crappy IBM architecture along with the flawed Intel processors beat the far better designed AMIGA architecture and Motorola 68000 chip. In the end it all comes down to money.

Posted by: GeiselS@...   Posted on: 05/27/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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