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From: geff@iastate.edu (Underwood Geoffrey Dale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Macs etc.
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.165610.23674@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 90 16:56:10 GMT
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In article <1990Oct23.170305.26130@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>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.
>>> 
>>> Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>>
>>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?
>>
>>----------
>>Harry Plantinga
>>planting@cs.pitt.edu
>
> I beleive Dave was talking about the fact that an A3000 can produce
>resolutions up to 1280x400 or greater when overscanned (also 640x960 this
>also can be overscanned) And with the A2024 monitor you get even a higher
>resolution. This isn't disinformation, its the truth. To get 1152x870
>you said you need to buy a special CARD and MONITOR. Dave said,
>'Higher resolution than comes with the Mac from apple.' Which is true.
>You need add on cards for the Mac to do better.
>
>-- 
>"NeXTs are useless... Mac's are irrelevent.. IBM's are futile. Amiga's,however,
>are quite nice!" -Capt Jeal-Luc Amiga      |     Flames to /dev/null
>Ray Cromwell   rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu      |   //     AMIGA!     \\
>"Your software will adapt to service ours!"| \X/      AMIGA!      \X/

	A Mac // needs a CARD and MONITOR to have any video at all.  This is
also true of the //x and the //cx.  Apple sells such cards and monitors.  If
somebody really wanted to, they could buy a //fx with six 8*24GC cards (each
of which has a RISC processor) and large monitors, all straight from Apple.  I
don't know what application would recommend this over a fast UNIX workstation
with a few X terminals (or cheap UNIX workstations), but Apple will be happy
to sell every component that would be required.

		Geff Underwood
		geff@iastate.edu