Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: It's really tough to debate with ignorant... Message-ID: <1991May9.201230.5062@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 9 May 91 20:12:30 GMT References: <11785@uwm.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 73 In article <11785@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes: >From article , by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): >DTP: PageStream, ProPage, ProScript (?), Saxon Publisher, and others. You are probably referring to Pro Vector, which is not a DTP. It is like Pro Draw...a structured drawing program for use with DTPs. >> Are you the goof who doesn't know how many colors the Amiga has? > >No, I'm the goof who knows how many colors a nExtStation doesn't. > We won that, hands down! >> 17" color monitors cost a lot. At a million pixels, how many colors >> does the Amiga have? It is expensive, and I won't be buying one I admit. >> It's mono. for me. Exactly. Who really needs color anyway? Might as well retract that statement you made earlier about how the nExt wil have awesome games soon... > >But of course you can have it for the Amiga. You only have to wait >until the graphics cards are available. And then you'll have a lot >more than 4096 colors as a total palette. Actually, you will only have to wait as long as it takes to call up a dealer and order one over night express! There are currently three 24 bit boards available NOW, each costing less than $500. And they work on ANY Amiga. >> Then you will have to buy a bigger hard disk or get another computer. >> What do you use for a reference on the Amiga? Do you really thing >> everyone needs the man page for fopen() online? > >No, but what if you do. That's right, I'd get another computer. One >of the faster RISC stations, and probably pay as much as a COLOR >nExtStation. Actually, I'd probably get an A3000UX, because I >wouldn't want to give up such a great real-time OS like AmigaOS 2.0. > >> nExt publishes what is included on both the small release and the >> nExtended release of the softare. I don't see how they're misleading >> anyone. > >You wouldn't. > >> You said the A500 had 24 bit color! You were wrong! >> > >You're kidding, right? No, I'm not so stupid as to say something like >that. I know how many colors the Amiga has, both in palette, and in >HAM. Maybe you're thinking of someone else, then. Because I >DEFINITELY did not say that. Maybe that color was CHEAPER, or it CAN >have 24 bit color for $500 bucks, but NOT that it came with it. And I quote, 'even the lowly Amiga for $500' can have 24 bit color. Meaning, the lowly Amiga can have 24 bit color with a $500 graphics board, as stated more than enough times. >-- >All opinions are my own, and not those of my employer. >Why? He doesn't know I'm doing this. > -Wubba -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it. But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that." Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.