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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Macs etc.
Message-ID: <15352@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 20:12:28 GMT
References: <901016.15214734.033391@CMR.CP6> <15198@cbmvax.commodore.com> <8934@pitt.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <8934@pitt.UUCP> planting@cs.pitt.edu (Professor Harry Plantinga) writes:
>In article <15198@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave 
>Haynie) writes:

>> The A3000, as shipped, supports higher resolution than any Mac straight
>> from Apple.  ....

>Ooo ooo, now the disinformation is coming straight from Commodore!  Does 
>the A3000, as shipped, come with better resolution than my Mac II, with an 
>Apple 21" 1152x870x8-bit grayscale monitor and an Apple 13" 640x480x24-bit color monitor?

OK, so I didn't know about the Apple greyscale or monochrome monitor.  I 
actually have a Commodore greyscale monitor hooked directly to my A2500/30, 
which does 1008x1024, but only in 2 bitplanes.  Same applies to the 3000.
The basic machine only does around 720x530x4 bitplanes or 1300x530x2 if you 
get ambitious with overscan, in color.  You need different monitors for 
the hires monochrome vs. the color, but no change of graphics board or
anything.

I wasn't claiming a color depth advantage, which I knew has been there for
awhile.  

>It doesn't come cheap, though; the total educational price at my university 
>for these two monitors and the associated video cards is $2546.

I think you'd pay about $1200, retail price, for both of these monitors.

>Harry Plantinga

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