Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!metahawk From: metahawk@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby) Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Sender: Wayne Rigby Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY References: <50206@ut-emx.uucp> <6qyh!w@rpi.edu> <44@ryptyde.UUCP> Date: 10 Jun 91 20:51:01 GMT Lines: 21 In article <44@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes: >Responding to the following: > >You don't know what you're talking about. Each monitor is controlled by its >own video board and given its own portion of the bitmap only. Try not to >relate Amiga problems with the Macintosh world. Have you ever tried hooking up multiple 24 bit color displays on a Mac? Here in our dorm, we hooked up 4 of the Apple 13" color monitors using 4 8.24 cards (Apple - 3 of them had GCs) to a Mac II. Under 24 bit, the displays were very slow (much slower than just one monitor w/o the GC activated, which I consider below acceptible speed - don't ever get a 24 card w/o a GC, you'll fall asleep waiting for the screen to catch up, well, it's not quite that bad, but...). At 8 bit, though, the displays weren't bad. Wayne Rigby Computer and Systems Engineer (in training) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute metahawk@rpi.edu