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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
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Please note the followup.

In article <1991Jun8.085839.3556@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:

Question:  [can I use 24-bit graphics modes for the workbench under 2.0]
>
>   Unfortunately, you will have to wait a while (probably a very LONG while)
>for that.  This is NOT supported in AmigaDOS 2.0, and will not be supported
>on the Amiga for several years.  

Is there a certain futility in replying to this without any kind of
sarcasm or character judgement?  I dunno.  Let's give it a shot:

Marc, where do you get your information?  Who has told you that DIG will
not be supported on the Amiga for several years, when all the evidence
suggests that it is a priority at Commodore?

A goddamn little bird? (Sorry, couldn't manage civility) ;-)

>   Right now, you don't have any choices at all as to what kind of display
>you use for your Workbench.  You either put up with the idiosyncracies of
>the Amiga's inadequate chipset, or get another system.  It's as simple as
>that.

Other systems that have more display options than the Amiga?  Start
naming names, Marc.  Last I counted there were around 20 graphics modes 
you can use with workbench.  Why is the chipset inadequate?  Compared to
what?  What other personal system in the whole known universe downloads 
graphics to a coprocessor straight out of the box?  What other system
offers the display flexibility of the Amiga?  What other system has had
any kind of parallel processing to *any* degree, even today?

Unless you back up your dysfunctional statements, Marc, you're just here
to piss people off.

And no, I don't expect you'll reply to this.

> / Marc Barrett  -MB- | BITNET:   XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET        /   

Dammit, I like .advocacy.
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