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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: 10 Apr 91 00:57:29 GMT
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In article <&5aGlabl1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
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>In article <10902@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:
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>   Yes, which is only usable on the CUBE, which is about 8000 dollars, or more...
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>Of course.  I was just correcting an incorrect statement made by an Amiga user.
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>   The 12 bit color with 4 alpha channel is the color slab, a likewise joke.
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>Hey, 4096 colors looks pretty impressive :-).
>And on a million pixel display, to boot.
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>-Mike

	I must be missing something here. The 040 is about three
times faster than the 030, right? And the color NeXT is 12 bits
as opposed to 2 bits on the old NeXTs, or six times the bit
planes. So, the color NeXT is twice as slow with the graphics/GUI
as the original NeXT, right?
	Truthfully I don't know what an alpha channel is. Is it
basically an overlay screen?

	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.