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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
Message-ID: <4594.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 21 Jun 91 07:03:56 GMT
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Quoted from <1388@cbmger.UUCP> by peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY):
> Huh? Why do you need High-Color SuperVGA for a GUI??? The Mac has a
> reputation for a good GUI, and it is IN B&W originally!! So the Amiga

    A funny thing. I attended an IBM presentation on OS/2 2.0 today,
    and one of their main points was a collection of little hacks, like
    our Robotroff and co.

    Kind of slow and decrepit on their VGA display :), but that may
    just have been because the version we were being shown was still
    in a development stage.

    I think people tend to overlook the slow and decrepit side of things
    when evaluating these sorts of products, because they aren't used to
    something better.

    On the other hand, if you consider that the GUI has to run on the
    same display as all your other applications, the more colorful the
    display the better (so you don't need one monitor for Workbench,
    and one for a 24-bit paint program, for example). Unless they make
    a display that is programmable like the Amiga's, so one horizontal
    strip is 24-bit, while another is 2-bit. That would be slick.

> Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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