Comment Re:never understood the appeal (Score 1) 189
"most impressive MOD for any game"
-- BaminationGames
So, it is saying that a car with an engine that can get 400mpg is more economical than one with 30mpg, but they leave out the important part that it will take you 10x longer to get to your destination. I hate the trite "typical marketing", but that is what this is
Unlike with engines if it's truly better on the "performance per watt" scale you can build super computers with 10x, 100x, whatever it takes of extra chips, to get there faster on the same power budget; Which would make Arm A9 viable for people with LINPACK like workloads, unless the cost of extra networking gear (and other support hardware), kills them.
Wasn't some company working on an Arm based super computer? They must be thrilled.
Would you areee that in a million years it is possible, via the mechanism of evolution, that a housecat will teach mathematics at a college level.
Areee? No. A housecat will never teach mathematics at a college level, just like how h. ergaster never got to do that (though some distant descendent eventually did).
A million years is also fairly short. It took more than that for man to evolve, and the rate of genetic mutation, horizontal gene transfer, etc, is fairly constant. Cats are further away from modern humans than man was back then, so 1 million years of natural evolution may simply not be enough to get a college ready smart!cat. And even if this happens, there could still be house cats around... perhaps the smart!cat will have one as a pet.
Traditionally you use portrait for web-pages buy the arm one does not horizontal resolution to view it naively.
Not that I disagree about 9:16 being potentially awkward, the arm surface has the same horizontal resolutions as the ipad 1 and 2 in portrait mode.
The Amiga 1200 was current at the time Doom was released. And you can obviously run Doom on it now.
Running Doom on a stock Amiga 1200 would be a painful experience. If it's upgraded with a 030 CPU and 4MB memory is another matter, but there wasn't many of those. You could also run Doom on an upgraded Amiga 500, as there were 030 upgrade cards for them too.
But I strongly doubt a stock A1200 would be anything but epically slow on Doom. First you need to run it straight from a floppy drive, as most owners didn't have a hard drive. Then you'd have to squeeze the game into half the memory, and that memory is quite slow as it was used by both the chip-set and the CPU (On the stock Amiga 1200 Commodore had in their infinite wisdom neglected to add fast ram). And even with fast ram the CPU itself is a good bit slower than a 386, which only ran Doom okayish as it was.
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