Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <46906@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 9 Apr 91 08:04:07 GMT References: <46867@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Apr8.222503.23643@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <5*1G-jlk1@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 28 In article <5*1G-jlk1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >The advantages of Display Postscript outweigh the disadvantages in the >reduction in speed(IMHO). A better WYSIWYG will benefit DTP more than >the speed. Adobe Illustrator, for example, won't need a preview mode >on the NeXT as it does on the Mac. Serious animation is the only >thing that is hindered by DP, but people who do serious animation can >probably afford to spend $4000 on the i860, or better yet, a SGI. The >A3000 does have a nice niche market with the Toaster, but I'm not a >cable TV company. Now you've gone and made the famous misstatement: "Those do X can afford the extra cost." Serious animators have been using the Amiga for 5 years. Now there are high resolution 24 bit boards available. There are even 32 bit boards currently in FCC (24 bits of color + 8 of alpha). $4000 for a board with 12 bit color and 4 bits alpha (correct me if I'm wrong) is outrageous, even with an i860 on board. >-Mike Greg -- Greg Harp |"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two |lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|running over the same ground. What have we found? s609@cs.utexas.edu |The same old fears. Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd