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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 14 Jun 91 03:25:24 GMT
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awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>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!
AH HA!!! so it comes down to it.  as you just pointed out, the video cards are
dependant on what size monitor you buy.  therefor NULLIFYING the argument that
changing the monitor size on a mac only changes the number of pixels.  thank
you.  it's the same with an amiga, a card capable of displaying a larger
number of pixels SHOULD be used with a larger monitor, but NOT necessarily.

>
>>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?

I don't think this would work, since

Ok, i'll give on that one, for now, but once you move that window off the
screen, you can't see it anymore.  AmigaDos 2.0 supports virtual workbenches,
that will scroll the screen when you come to the edge so your work area can be
larger than your monitor space.  This supported on the Mac?


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