I don't think Jes wants you to buy an Amiga.
The problem is that a lot of PC hardware is crappy. And people just buy it
because it's 50 cent cheaper than decent hardware. What a wonderful world...
> The i740 can issue multiple requests for texture data stored in main memory.
> Don't think "WinVideo" here, since the chip uses several MB of local
> memory while simultaneously fetching from main memory at 533 MB/s.
> On a good machine, that could mean hundreds of MB of textures.
Please show us the programming specs for the i740 first (without NDA!) so we
can write a driver for it :-)
It's nice to have such a video chip if you can't even write a driver for it.
> > (I'm an x86 user, by the way, so your ultimate argument doesn't apply.
>
> No, you have different reasons than he does. You are willing to give up
> stability for a tiny bit of speed on low-end hardware. He has an Amiga.
> The only thing you have in common is a "screw you" attitude towards
> people who want stable PC video and/or want to use advanced features.
People who want a `stable' system should buy `stable' hardware.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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