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From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau)
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Subject: Re: opean Personal Computer Sales?
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Date: 25 Jan 91 12:34:40 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.234830.11110@cs.dal.ca>, dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca
(Colin DeWolfe) writes:
|> From: dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Colin DeWolfe)
|> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
|> Subject: Re: opean Personal Computer Sales?


[Stuff on ulowell card deleted]


|> >
|> >So what in the world is it good for?  It's main purpose is to give the
|> >Unix Amiga a megapixel color display for X Windows.  You can't be a
|> >workstation without one.  This card may never serve any purpose for
|> >most AmigaDOS'ers.
|> 
|> I can think of a use right now....
|> Cad programs could use this thing.  Not only does it have high resolution,
|> lots of colours and a great display, but it makes a great Display
|> List Processor
|> Just imagine how fast X-CAD would run on this sucker...

Well, if a standard of access to these cards could be devised for the Amiga,
then a framebuffer.library (.device?) could be written to access different
ones - transparent to the application. Then new programs like DPAINT IV and 
DigiView 5.0 ( :-)) could open mega-color screens on them.

Eventually, by the time the fun wore off, Commodore Amiga would have ported 
Intuition, gfx etc...

|> 
|> >-- 
|> >First comes the logo: C H E C K P O I N T  T E C H N O L O G I E S  
|> / /  
|> >                                                                   
|> \\ / /    
|> >Then, the disclaimer:  All expressed opinions are, indeed, opinions.
|> \  / o
|> >Now for the witty part:    I'm pink, therefore, I'm spam!           
|> \/
|> 
|> --
|> Colin DeWolfe
|> dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca
|> 

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