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Your logic is flawed. A MIPS-vs-MIPS comparison is justified, because the VGA card's chunky framebuffer meant you could update a lone pixel in one instruction,
by kayamon 8y ago
Your logic is flawed. A MIPS-vs-MIPS comparison is justified, because the VGA card's chunky framebuffer meant you could update a lone pixel in one instruction, whereas the Amiga's planar framebuffer would require 5 separate passes (if e.g. in 32 color mode) to update the same single pixel.
- rasz 8y agoExactly, difference was in graphic handling, but beginning of the book tells you otherwise, completely concentrating on CPU power and glorifying 386(while wolf ran fine on 286). Maybe it was just padding, and later chapters rectify this "inaccuracy".