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From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <17261@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 91 15:14:50 GMT
References: <5092@orbit.cts.com> <35@ryptyde.UUCP>
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <35@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>You obviously aren't familiar with the Macintosh graphics device. Macintosh
>video is much more programmable than the Amiga's will ever be, for very good
>reasons. There IS no "standard" dpi. No video "standards", or modes, are
>needed in the Macintosh community.  Any monitor can be of any resolution,
>any number of pixels, independant of size, and the Macintosh will recognize
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	  Quickdraw supports 32-bit color, max.  Many of the higher-end graphics
systems are now doing 64-bit or more.

>it as a grid from pixel to pixel and uses integer to draw to screen. This is
>why you can attach two or more monitors to a Mac and use them as one monitor.
>That is, you can logically "connect" the two monitors so that they act as
>one larger monitor. This is totally programmable. A good example is an 

	 How about having multiple virtual screens with different resolutions,
depths, and color pallettes all displayed simultaneously on the same monitor?


>Extension that tells the OS that the screen is really smaller than it appears,
.....
>reserved, and so fits its windows into what it's given. This is in contrast
>to how Amiga's and IBMs view their monitors. On one of these machines, if
>you're given a monitor with more pixels, it doesn't "zoom out" and give more
>room. Instead, the picture you DO see (which doesn't change) is seen at 
>higher quality.

     The 2024 monitor definitely 'gives more room'.... an 1008x800 screen;
screens are resized to support it.





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