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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 12 Jun 91 14:47:32 GMT
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In article <5117@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:

>Look at it this way... the only way to get more pixels on a Mac is to buy a
>bigger monitor.  on the Amiga you might need a BETTER monitor, but not a

Dead wrong.  You could do 1024x768 on any monitor that supports it, i.e. one
of the multisyncs/trisyncs.  You pop in a card that the ads say supports 19"
monitors and BINGO!

>can have differing resolutions on these screens and they can overlap each
>other so that say the top 1/3 of the screen is in a 640x400 resolution the
>middle third is in a 640x200, and the bottom third being a 320x400 resolution.
> THIS is flexibility.  THIS is not possible on ANY mac with ANY product.  I've

OK, I'll buy that.

>just named something that is IMPOSSIBLE on a Mac, now you name something that
>is IMPOSSIBLE to do on an Amiga, that you can do on a MAC.  I'm not talking
>about things that are weakly supported.. like the clipboard.

OK, how about this.  I take a 1987 vintage Mac II.  Pop in 4 video cards.  I
configure them to display video space in a 2x2 array.  I set the pixel depths
to 2, 16, 256, and 16.7 million colors respectively.  Now, I take a window and 
expand it to fill all four monitors.  I do this with several popular programs.

Can the Amiga do this?