Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!ucsd!nosc!crash!pro-graphics.cts.com!bobl From: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Correcting misconceptions TARGA -vs- AMIGA Message-ID: <7262@crash.cts.com> Date: 29 Jan 91 01:56:18 GMT Sender: root@crash.cts.com Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: message from Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com > 1. Amiga versus Targa comparison/contrast > People are stating that the stock Amiga with 'only' 4096 > colors is inferior to Targa boards. This makes no sense. > The Targa cannot display ANY colors. The Amiga is a computer, > the Targa is an add-on board (which by the way could be used > with the Amiga in the IBM slots, I presume). The correct > comparison would be an Amiga with add-on boards to another > platform (or even the Amiga) with the Targa add-on board. > I'm tired of these apples and orange peel comparisons. C'mon, when people do that comparison they are NOT comparing the Amiga with a TARGA board. They are comparing the Amiga's display output with the TARGA's display output. This is NOT comparing apples and oranges..although you would certainly think so if you looked at both of the displays.. -- Bob ______ Pro-Graphics BBS "It's better than a sharp stick in the eye!" ________ UUCP: crash!pro-graphics!bobl | Pro-Graphics: 908/469-0049 Internet: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com | America Online: Graphics3d FastInet: bobl@bobsbox.rent.com | Compuserve: RIP _________ ___________ Raven Enterprises 25 Raven Avenue Piscataway, NJ 08854