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From: waw5805@isc.rit.edu (W.A. Willis )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Macs etc.
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.182108.7386@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 90 18:21:08 GMT
References: <901017.09584647.033595@CMR.CP6> <15321@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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>Article 2162 of comp.sys.amiga:
>Path: nowhere!ritcsh!cci632!uupsi!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!daveh
>From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
>Subject: Re: Macs etc.
>Message-ID: <15321@cbmvax.commodore.com>
>Date: 22 Oct 90 19:20:06 GMT
>References: <901017.09584647.033595@CMR.CP6>
>Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
>Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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>>In article <901017.09584647.033595@CMR.CP6> Dennis_Grant@CMR001.BITNET writes:

>>     Incidently, why didn't the A3000 add an extra bitplane? I seem to
>>recall an allowance for one in the OS. (no flame, just curiosity)

>The OS would probably allow several, but the A3000 still uses a version of the
>ECS Amiga chips, which don't support anything like that.

Ahh. Am I the only one that detects an implication of a future feature
of ECS?