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From: xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 21:22:16 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.160220.24426@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <1991Apr18.121236.404@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
>>> Perhaps Commodore should make a NuBUS card with the Amiga chipset on it
>>>and sell it as a Mac video card.
>>
>>   Who would buy it?  I don't really see why an MAC owner would want to
>>pluck down $1500 for a video card that has 640x400 interlaced graphics with 
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>>12-bit color, when that same MAC owner would purchase a card from Apple
>>that gives them 640x480 non-interlaced graphics with 24-bit color and a
>>high-speed RISC graphics coprocessor to boot.
>>
>	Once again you miss the point. You knock the Amiga for
>one of its features! It is the interlace video which allows the
>Amiga to do the video work it does without having to buy
>expensive addons. If it weren't for that the Amiga would have
>nothing but games.

   I should have also mentioned that the 8/24GC from Apple can output
15KHz interlaced graphics with the flip of a switch...

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

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