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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga/NeXT flames (Was Re: Amiga OS *IS* state...)
Message-ID: <1991Apr09.161348.8573@convex.com>
Date: 9 Apr 91 16:13:48 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.123457.9779@galois.mit.edu> pselver@euler.mit.edu (Peter Selverstone) writes:
>In article <46907@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:
                                [...]
>>However, the Display Enhancer card costs something like $100-$150 less than
>>the competing flickerFixer board and works with the new video modes which
>>aren't supported by the fF.
>
>Neither of these statements is correct.  Don't believe everything you
>read on the net.  Several commercially oriented postings have contained
>very misleading information.  It's a shame that a long-term record of
>fairness and accuracy in usenet postings has been compromised.

Please tell us what is incorrect and exactly what is incorrect, if you are
convinced that this posting is in error.

Unless the prices changed recently, the Commodore display enhancer board
was selling for about $300 (actually I've seen it much cheaper than this),
while the FF was selling for around $450.

If you think this is wrong please correct these figures with specific numbers.

Also, it was my understanding that the Commodore display enhancer is able to
display full overscan, and the FF was not able to do this (I believe there is
some number of overscan pixels that get left out).  Again, if you think this
is wrong, please correct it with some detail.

I'm not flaming; I really want to know if this is not true; it's just that
a statement of, "Neither of these statements is correct," just isn't very
convincing.
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