Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!agate!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Mac Lc vs IIgs A+ Message-ID: <9102062322.AA15813@apple.com> Date: 6 Feb 91 23:12:57 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 38 On Tue, 5 Feb 91 17:54:15 GMT said: >From MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET: > >> -The GS can display 3200 colors. The LC can display 256 > > C'mon, I'm all for proving the GS is leaps and bounds beyond the Mac LC, >but saying the GS can display 3200 colours and the LC can display 256 is a bit >misleading. 3200-mode is of very limited use on the GS. I would much rather >have the LC's 640x480x256-colour mode than 3200-colour graphics. Yeah, you're right, but I was on a roll and couldn't resist :) BUT, I did acknowledge the fact that those colors can be increased to well over 3200 on the LC. But, on the other hand, it IS something the GS can do that the mac can't (out of the box). >> -The GS (and all II's) have optional ibm compatibility (PCT). > > You need to buy hardware to obtain MS-DOS compatibility however. You can I know. I pointed that out ('optional...PCT'). That was in reply to them saying that the LC has Mac compatibility. >use SoftPC on a Mac to emulate an IBM without additional hardware. I think >you get EGA graphics to boot. I've used that too, but it doesn't compare to the PCT (although, I have to admit, I've never seen it on a color mac emulating EGA), and it doesn't allow you to use ibm compatible monitors, keyboards, or floppy drives. >Brian T. Tao {taob@pnet91.cts.com} || Computer guru? Someone who got >University of Metro Toronto || their computer a couple of weeks >Scarberia, ON, MIC 3A8 *B-) || before you did. (Alvin Toffler) ---------------------------------------- Michael J. Quinn University of Tennessee at Chattanooga BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com