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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: 17 Jun 91 16:25:02 GMT
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What alot of people don't seem to realize about 24 bits is this.  the AVERAGE
Amiga unit sold is a 1 meg machine WITHOUT a hard drive.  what this means is
that if 24 bit graphics were in the chipset, the AVERAGE user could NOT take
advantage of it.  since a single 24 bit image averages over 700k each, this is
not effective.  you wouldn't be able to load any paint programs and still have
enough memory to work on the image.  and only ONE image per disk?  no, 24 bits
standard would be stupid, in my opinion, since it would only increase the
cost, and we all know that Amiga people don't like paying for things they
can't use.  how many people would buy an Amiga 500 with built-in ethernet? 1%?
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