Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:75074 comp.sys.amiga.tech:17212 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:5250 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Retargetable graphics. Temporary Stop-gaps. Keywords: rtg,iff,24bit,video hardware Message-ID: <7361@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 23 Dec 90 16:54:28 GMT References: <12437@life.ai.mit.edu> <16612@cbmvax.commodore.com> <7307@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Dec19.175634.19203@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <7337@sugar.hackercorp.com> <661@cbmger.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 15 In article <661@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: > But this reminds me a little of the phrase "do we really need multitasking?". Me too. "Do we really need high-res intuition"? Damn straight we do. > Well, all these little details make up the Amiga as it is. And I wouldn't > like to trade in any existing feature, that would be a drawback. But you wouldn't... you;d still have all that stuff on the first head. You would just gain the ability to run a second head on your Amiga. You need to run two headed *anyway* the way things are, simply because the existing high res cards don't support the workbench. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .