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From: mark@gcrc.aecom.YU.EDU (mark lyakhovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
Summary: my 2 cents wort
Message-ID: <176@gcrc.aecom.YU.EDU>
Date: 22 Jun 89 13:59:04 GMT
References: <788@boing.UUCP> <566@bnr-fos.UUCP> <1148@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> <800@boing.UUCP>
Organization: GCRC at Albert Einstein College Of Medicine,NY
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In article <800@boing.UUCP>, dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
> In article <19430@cup.portal.com> stephan@cup.portal.com (Stephen Derek Schaem) writes:
> >
> > You might have to charge a little more than that:-).
> >of that size without overlaping...
> 
> Not true Let's try 704x484 for actual seeable resolution.
> With a2024 software(preV1.4) we can open a 1008x1024 screen and
> PAN around in it.
> 
> Also the moniterm Viking 1 monitor displays 1008x800 flicker free
> and X11 for the Amiga supports it.
> 
> > Memory, a 2500 is limited to 4 meg?isnt it? And if you need 3 meg that left
> >1 to the user! and if they remap ROM it will be a joke.
> 
> Get the facts straight.
> First: 2500 is limited to 9 megs of memory, not 4 megs.
> 
> The 3 megs for X11 is , 1 meg for server and amigados. 2 megs for user.
> Remapping the rom will make everything run faster, and I'm beginning
> to see where the real joke is.
> 
> > All I want to say is, you project is GREAT but it wont push people how want
> >X to get an Amiga for the job.If they are not using the amiga itself they
> >wont find X atrective runing on an amiga.
> 
> I don't see any evidence that supports this statement. The Amiga is the
> lowest cost, reasonable to excellant graphics performance computer that
> supports a full X11 system (server AND Clients).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
> {uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale

 To all of this i can simply the price of the new Sun 3/80 is list $5400
 With some major discounts from NSF -(National Science Foundation) =35%
 you can bye a real workstationwith a monochrome monitor with resolution of 
 more than 800x800 pluss the cpu which is 68030 with math processer plus 
 Ether-Net connecter build in, a real operating system Unix 4.3 pluss 
 next release of the Op. Sys will be 4.1 (Open Look) which is X11

			For Total of $3400

			Mark  Lyakhovsky    
			System Manager of local network of Sun's