And lo on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:50:07 +0100, scott <sco### [at] scottcom> did  
spake, saying:

>> The real point is more that on a PC, just switching from one window to  
>> another always seemed to take forever, whereas on an Amiga it was  
>> instantaneous unless the machine was under heavy load.
>
> Yeh, I remember my friend had a 33 MHz PC, and just closing a window it  
> took several seconds for his desktop wallpaper to repaint itself, slowly  
> scanning down the screen line-by-line.

Another obvious case of False Memory Syndrome.

> They also ported some really cool vector art package that was originally  
> written for the Acorn (I think it was called Artworks on the Acorn and  
> Xara on the PC).  At some computer show I went to they had both packages  
> running on a latest Acorn and PC at the time, and of course the Acorn  
> was something like 8x faster at drawing complex shapes with lots of  
> graduated fills and transparency.  It had fininshed drawing the entire  
> picture, while the PC was still drawing the background fills.

Ah but was the Artworks-derived Xara for the PC really comparable to  
Artworks on the Acorn or is it just another Blender to Paint comparison?

;-)

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