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From: kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: JPEG compression: "press release"
Message-ID: <614@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 21 Jan 91 17:10:22 GMT
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davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:


>  Also, is there any 24 bit viewing hardware readily available for
>machines such as the Mac, PC, or Amiga? I am aware of some seriously
>pricy 24 bit display stuff for Mac, but it represents about half the
>cost of the machine, and is not likely to be in the budget of the
>average person, or even company unless they have an actual need.

I may not be the average person but I do have a 24 bit video board in
my machine.  It is a PixelWorks UltraClipper UA1280.  It outputs 1280
by 1024 in 24 bits, ---- if you have something to show and the program
to show it.  Unfortunately, I have very little software that uses this
capability.  I have some commercial software (CADKEY) that does use it
and it is wonderful.  I am waiting for their drivers for Windows.  It
cost a lot -- about $3K for the board and the drivers are about $250
each but I get upgrades for free.  They also have a new X board
available.  Their have boards that fit in 80x86 and 680x0 machines.
I run this board in a 33MHz 80386 with 387 and use a Taxan 1150
UltraVision monitor (21").

I do have the MicroSoft C 5.1 Libraries for this board and can thus
compile software using the board level calls that are provided.  I
guess that I would be more interested in all this except for one small
problem.  I haven't done any programming for about 10 years and have
very little C experience or any other for that matter.

I would be interested in keeping in touch or testing out stuff though.

Sincerely, 

Kevin
-- 
Kevin "auric" Crocker Athabasca University 
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