[Web] My Pegasos / MorphOS review | ANN.lu |
Posted on 21-Jun-2003 02:25 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 58 comments View flat View list |
It has been two and half a month since I bought my Pegasos.
I used it almost every day and wrote a review that you can find
here.
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Posted by Kjetil on 21-Jun-2003 14:51 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (Atheist2): /*
If it doesn't, well......WE NEED CUSTOM HARDWARE!!!! PCs suck!!
AmigaOne! Amigas are better!
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Guess you know nothing about computers to write this, chipsets are there to control hardware, even new PC's have custom hardware, gfx card has GPU, the ATA has DMA, I can continue and less about all the chips in PC that controls firewrite or USB, every computer need chipset to have efficiency need for communication, video and disk access.
In the old days programs where written to access the gfx card directly, there where standards like VGA, EGA, this standards only exists to day to make the old programs work, I do expect them to be remove now that we live in DOS free world, this days we no need to access the chips directly, the main reason for this is that if you are going to improve hardware with better an faster hardware you most always take in count the old hardware and it's limits, this is way drivers are used, small programs that goes between the program and the hardware allowing you to replace the hardware with otter type of hardware that works in different way whit about following an out dated hardware standards.
way do I use PC as an example for Amiga custom chips well PC has always hard custom chips, in the old days they where not so advanced as the Amiga used at the time, butt the reality is that the way programs are written is the problem of to day, by not using drivers you get less latency if you know how to use the hardware, it depends on how good you are to code, this where needed when you only hard 7Mhz , now we have 800Mhz and 600Mhz, the latency is not really an issue any more. |
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