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From: les@celia.UUCP (Les Dittert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: summary re: amiga, ccd, astronomy image-processing
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Date: 29 Aug 90 21:14:59 GMT
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In article <28827@nigel.ee.udel.edu> JMPIERCE%USMCP6.BITNET@vm.tcs.tulane.edu (JIM PIERCE) writes:
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>commercial venture for some enterprising programmer/hardware
>person to promote the Amiga. After all, the _best_ micro for
>image-processing is the Amiga. Actually I prefer to use the
>machine best suited for a particular project. No need to
>overreact to this posting, I wont be on here long enough to
>read them. Heckle each other. Some of you are real good at that.
>
>
>* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim Pierce at Univ. of Southern Mississippi
>* Disclaimer: 'Documentation? There's no documentation for Bitnet.'


I don't think the Amiga is a good platform for image processing since
it only has 4 bits for each color , or 16 shades of grey total.

A Mac 2 on the other hand has 256 shades of grey. And more serious 
off the shelf image processing software is available for the Mac.

Les