Since @Jonathan_Blow was talking about how bad modern software is, I thought it might be a good time to re-post this video of how fast CygnusEd (a text editor) was on the Amiga _thirty years ago_:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L41oIvre9K0 …
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Although my recollection is fuzzy, the blitter was hella fast at block copies as well, so really the main problem most of the time was the main memory. You simply didn't have enough of it to store lots of frames. So the solid fills were mostly for memory compression.
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