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From: DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Simple Frame Buffer boards
Message-ID: <90337.142339DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 19:23:39 GMT
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Organization: Penn State University
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In article <918@boing.UUCP>, dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) says:

>I did not realize that SO MANY were running with fully blown out
>(8M of ram) systems that use all of it up the last 1-2M during
>normal program execution.

I agree, this is pretty unusual! Saying that there's not enough address space
sounds like a lame excuse for a bad design.

By the way, I was pretty surprised at the nice video card that my Dad bought
for his (ick) clone. It can do VGA (boring!) plus 1024x768 256 colors (non-
interlaced) AND 512x480 16 million colors (non-interlaced), has a 34010,
1MB VRAM standard, 2MB of program RAM for the 34010 optional. This for $620
from a name brand supplier (Hercules). Is Commodore's A2410 similar?
(not that I would buy one, just curious :-))

-- Dan Babcock