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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: AMIGA
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Date: 5 May 91 16:28:33 GMT
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In article <1553@ewu.UUCP> mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce) writes:

   I think you missed his point.  I and several of the CS faculty persons here at
   EWU agree with Dave Haney's point about a video accelerator.  Just think how
   fast the display would be if it had it's own graphic coprocessor instead of 
   using the CPU.  Since the DSP is very under utilized (not used here @ EWU) we
   could have benefitted from a graphic coprocessor of some sort.  The nExt is an
   interesting machine, its just that it is very....eccentric.

NeXT needed to have sound in the machine.  An IBM beep wasn't good
enough.  I think a graphics coprocessor would have added to much to
the cost.  People are already complaining that the price is too high.
The NeXTDimension board is available(will be) for people who want to
do some serious animation.

Anyway, tell NeXT.  Perhaps their NeXT generation of machines might
satisfy your needs.  How much animation do you want?  The NeXT is very
capable of doing some now.

-Mike