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Also putting display core routines in ROM was important because RAM access was slower (because the display used 1/2 the RAM bandwidth)
by Taniwha 3y ago
Also putting display core routines in ROM was important because RAM access was slower (because the display used 1/2 the RAM bandwidth)
- bcrl 3y agoGood point. The Amiga did the same thing in the Amiga 500 and 2000. The Amiga 1000 would have if the operating system had been more stable at time of release. It also saved a significant chunk of RAM as the 1.x releases of AmigaOS used 256KB ROMs while 2.x on were 512KB ROMs.