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My 16mhz 68000 based Amiga 500 had smoother mouse movement than my 3.2ghz 8 core desktop.
by snarfy 9y ago
My 16mhz 68000 based Amiga 500 had smoother mouse movement than my 3.2ghz 8 core desktop.
- rbanffy 9y agoIIRC, on the Amigas the CPU was barely involved in the process of reading the mouse events and moving the cursor sprite on the screen.
- snarfy 9y agoYep, hardware sprites.
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoModern GPUs still have hardware sprites for the cursor, and OSes still use them! However, the path between the mouse and updating that sprite has gotten more complex, alas.
- rbanffy 9y agoI imagine a modern day Amiga would run all mouse and window server code on the GPU, only telling the CPU when the app needs to update its bitmap.