Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <1991Apr21.222555.5807@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 21 Apr 91 22:25:55 GMT References: <11113@uwm.edu> <8068@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Distribution: na Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 31 In article <8068@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: >In article kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. SHephard) writes: >>I worked on a IIcx and a SE-30 both with large monitors... >>...the Mac screen updates were very slooooow. > > Just FTR (for the record), Mac screen updates can be very quick with >the right graphics card. My friend at SuperMac showed me their 24-bit >graphics accelerator card, and it could do 24-bit updates faster than the >A3000 does 4-bit updates on the Workbench. The speed difference was very >noticable. > > Of course, you have to $$pay$$ for that kind of speed, but it does >exist for Macs. Isn't the SuperMac $23,000? > > Dan > > //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ >| Dan Barrett, Department of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University | >| INTERNET: barrett@cs.jhu.edu | | >| COMPUSERVE: >internet:barrett@cs.jhu.edu | UUCP: barrett@jhunix.UUCP | > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////// -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN Tomas Arce Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :) Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.