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From: gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
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Subject: 24 bit graphics
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Date: 20 Sep 90 07:08:06 GMT
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I suppose that I'm going to be flamed quite thoroughly for this, but
what the hell:

	I really think that Marc Barrett has been receiving bad treatment
from people on the net.  It is certainly true that many people are acting
in violation of netiquette.  Marc may have a volatile way of putting points
across (I don't see them as that bad myself, but obviously some people
do), but he is certainly entitled to express his opinions, and I feel
that people should argue them rationally.  Many people are wasting
quite a bit of bandwidth by simply bashing him. We are getting back to
something that happened several months ago.

Now that that is out of the way, on to the real point of the posting.

I know that Commodore is working furiously at making retargetable
graphics a reality for the Amiga OS.  This pleases me greatly since
I will be able to buy a high resolution 24 bit graphics board,
stick it in my machine and be able to run the beautiful Workbench 2.0
on it.  Let's face it, a 16 million color Workbench kicks the shit
out of a 32 color Workbench.  I'm used to working on graphics workstations
every day, and it is certainly something I could live with at home 8-)
While I agree that the Amiga is an ideal video machine, it is certainly
not restricted to being a video machine.  I am more interested in still
displays with large resolutions for doing ray tracing, modeling, etc.
People may argue that the Amiga may not need this, but I disagree.
There is a definite place for the Amiga in things such as this.

I am wondering whether or not Dale Luck is going to port a Motif window
manager to run under native Amiga OS.  I would also like to see an
Intuition window manager for OS 2.0.  X would be an interesting way
of achieving device independence (retargetable graphics).

Just a few of my useless ideas. 8-)
Please flame by email, unless it would benefit the net.

				See ya, Ralph

 
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