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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
Message-ID: <126@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 89 16:12:02 GMT
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Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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In article <19503@cup.portal.com> stephan@cup.portal.com (Stephen Derek Schaem) writes:
->
-> 9meg of 32bit ram, I didn't know they had 32bit memory expansion for the 
->A2620! Well I learn everyday...
->The amiga is DEAD slow without a a2620 and 32bit ram, the GFX are nothing
->to be proud of.And id you want to get something corect it will cost you!
-> And the amiga is right now limited to 704x484 (OVERSCAN!) and in 16 colors
->in of course interlaced!
-> All I'm saying is if people want a Graphics computer with X11 the amiga
->wont be the best idea.
-> To what Workstation are you comparing the amiga for price/power?
->You should also now that soon 8,000$ workstation will be out, and will cut
->the amiga of in the profesional area.
-> What I want to say is, for the price of a corect amiga people can spend
->a little more and get 10 time better.

Usually I don't follow up on postings where people say a bunch of garbage
without having any knowledge of what the hell they are talking about.

Have you seen X running on the Amiga?  If not you should ask people who
have before making such idiotic remarks.  I have been running X on a
standard Amiga 2000 for quite a while and I can tell you that it is
plenty fast on the straight 68000 (monochrome).  

Also I have found the 704x484 to be no real hindrance.  Of course the
more pixels the better it is.  But this has nothing to do with X, this
is true in general.  Furthermore, have you priced the large monitors
needed for 1K resolution lately.

We have a lot of different workstations here at the lab, and I can tell
you that the Amiga gives you by far the best price/performance ratio as
an X-Window server.  And I am definitely happy with it.  I think that
Dale has done a tremendous job in porting X to the Amiga.  And this is
not a straight port.  There is quite a lot of optimization on the Amiga.

Disclaimer: I have no vested interest in GfxBase.
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