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much higher rate - by employing block transfers - than that achieved in an unaccelerated system utilising numerous separate data transfers over the NuBus expansion bus. Various "bottleneck" QuickDraw operations were implemented using routines running on the QuickColor board. Such reimplemented routines were claimed to run 50% faster on the QuickColor board whose ARM processor ran "a multi-tasking RISC operating system". QuickCAD was described as "a superset of Radius's QuickColor", offering display list processing in a fashion similar to that of existing coprocessors - already available for IBM PC-compatible systems - such as the
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