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From: stephan@cup.portal.com (Stephen Derek Schaem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
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Date: 16 Jun 89 00:47:38 GMT
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 Ok let me explain for the price.
Amiga 2500 with 4 meg of 32bit ram, flicker fixer, 19" monitor, ethernet,
good DMA SCSI controler, 170meg HD And the rest.
A 640x400 is 6 time smaller than 'normal' display.I'm not talking about 
overscan here, or you could push it a little more and mention PAL amiga's!
right now you can get a unix workstation with ethernet, scsi, 170meg HD,
19" sony monitor, 4 meg, 16 mhz RISC (MIPS R2000), 8 bitplanes (with 16 slot
for video ram, and the abilitie to do real time 3D animation.
 the machine as been selling for 15,000$ and in september under 10,000$.
Anybody with a head will see that the amiga is a wrong choice!.
 Have you seen the show 'computer dreams'? well the demo from pixar/disney
are done on that 15,000$ machine, the minic of max headroom, the comercial
for the last olympics etc etc... And to tell you the speed, the demo about
the plan of the house building itself is real time on that machine.
 Networking:-) Nasa replce it's cray for the big brother of that low end .
and the 15,000$ machine is binary compatible with the 120,000$ one.160mips
192 meg, 4.2 gigabytes hlod on 4 HD tape backup etc etc.
 what are you point of the amiga is the solution of networking with GFX
capability?