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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <45@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 91 09:13:20 GMT
References: <5092@orbit.cts.com> <35@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun9.083656.8443@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

"Blah, blah. I've seen enough. You don't understand the poster's point.
The Mac display HARDWARE is not adjustable. Basically, whatever display
board you have is ALL you have. The Amiga can alter it's scan rates
on demand. Can you tell the Mac OS that you want a PAL screen for
output to a video tape? Can you tell the Mac OS you want a 15khz
screen for the new monitor you purchased? Can you even change the
Mac's frame buffer location at any X,Y raster coordinates on the screen.
Can you have multiple screens with different reolution being displayed
at once?"

You're right in that the flexibility of any Macintosh monitor is limited
by the flexibility of the card used with that monitor. And yes, you can
display multiple screens with different resolutions on each. I'm not 
disputing the hardware-superiority of the Amiga over the Macintosh, but
it simply does not follow my computing philosophy: Power over Speed.
I'd much rather have a more flexible, powerful OS, thank you.

" The AMiga display hardware is programmable (awesome games, awesome
video abilities, fast speed)
 
 The Mac display hardware is not ( slower screen updates, no
scanrate flexibility, no cheap genlocking, and shitty games to boot)"

The Macintosh is a general purpose business tool. Apple doesn't think that
decreasing the scanrate of a monitor is very useful, and if you want to 
dump to tape, the conversion is done by the interface hardware anyway, so 
what's the point? Slow screen updates? That is dependant upon the monitor/
card you're using, and screen updates are generally very fast, due to the
afformentioned graphics device.

"The Mac display software is more flexible, but the extra indirection
for DIG slows it down on weak machines (68000, 68020) especially on
the really big and colourful displays unless you have a risc system
driving it."

I didn't really get this. Is this supposed to be a bash against the Mac?
What the heck is DIG? The Macintosh is NOT slowed down by its flexibility,
it is speeded up by it. You'd know that if you read my post.