Re: ZipGS or Second Sight????

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950522002943.16049A-100000@taurus.oac.uci.edu>,
"Someone@Somewhere" <eaeu899@taurus.oac.uci.edu> wrote:

> I would recommend the Zip GS. Because it is (but not always) the 
> "general" accelerator for a computer, because everything has to go 
> through the processor. With the Zip GS, you would see programs run 
> faster, screens redraw faster, windows scroll and open faster, 
> calculations go faster, and all the other stuff that goes through the 
> processor will speed up (theoretically, of course) :-)
> 
> On the other hand, Second Sight only speeds up the graphics, which is 
> fine, but all the other things would still run at slower speed. In 
> addition, most programs would not take advantage of the higher resolution 
> and color depth.

The real bottleneck on the IIGS is that dratted 1MHZ data bus.  I'll
accept it on the ROM 1, but with the advent of the ROM 3 they could have
implemented the NuBUS at least.

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