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From: larry@postgres.uucp (Larry Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: video-window boards
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Date: 22 Dec 90 07:30:16 GMT
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While agree that competition will bring down the cost of video
boards in unix workstations, the rasterops board was the
cheapest device available when we bought it last aug.  also,
at the time the only real alternative for sparcstations.  several
people have boards for deskside units (e.g., parallax, somebody else
whose name i forget), but they didn't have sparc boards nor did they
seem interested in doing one.  finally, we got a good university
discount which brought the board down to $3.5k (i probably should
not report this, but what the heck...).

now the question is where are the video compression boards and
when will C-cubed fix their chips?
	larry