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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: 68030+68040 on A3000: is it possible?
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Date: 10 May 91 21:36:02 GMT
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In article <21302@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <18991@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cs171wbu@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Dave) writes:
>>And we want it as a standard card which amiga will release with
>>future versions of the 3000 or 4000(maybe 3500Graphics) or something,
>>so that software producers can write software specifically for
>>it (the other 24 bit color cards aren't standard for the Amiga
>>line and we won't see wide software support).  
>
>That's also the wrong approach.  You can't get away with making a $4000 extra
>a standard thing on a $3000 computer.  There are already a number of decent
>24-bit options for the Amiga, some even reasonably priced.  What would make
>them all a little easier to deal with would be retargetable graphics, where
>each application program can interrogate the graphics system, find out what 
>graphics capabilities are available, and act accordingly, without any need to
>know exactly what hardware is in place.  In time, that will happen.

  Maybe Commodore should get together with some of the 24 bit companies, and
they could hack up a motherboard modification for a high-end Amiga, or 
possibly a UNIX machine. 

>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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           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.
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