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From: sjcst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Scott J. Corley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development.
Message-ID: <75723@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 91 08:46:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <17114@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: sjcst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Scott J. Corley)
Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CIS
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In article <17114@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>
>   CASE 3: THE A2410 "U-LOWELL" VIDEO BOARD:
>
>This board is .....
>intended to provide be a decent UNIX workstation type display, and in fact
>is very similar to the displays on our color Apollo systems here at C=.  It
>is not intended to be for 24 bit video work, which of course would give you
>a NTSC/PAL compatible interlaced display.  Anything at CAD resolutions that's
>also 24 bits deep is on the fringe at this point, up in Silicon Graphics
>terratory where few if any PC class machines are welcome. 
>
>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>	"Don't worry, 'bout a thing. 'Cause every little thing, 
>	 gonna be alright"		-Bob Marley




Dave , does this mean that we wont see SVGA resolution graphics on the
next generation of the Amiga chipset because it has to stay compatible
with the 15.75kHz scan rate of NTSC and getting SVGA resolution 
requires a higher scan rate? I hope this isnt true. Even if Commodore
or some 3rd party company comes out with a FlickerFixer for a high 
resolution NTSC compatible mode , it still isnt as good as having a
high scan rate built in. I have a A3000 and I hate it when you move
things on the screen and you get a double image because of the 
built in FlickerFixer. Its really annoying when reading text.


               Scott Corley