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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.091520.18849@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 09:15:20 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.002542.19989@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>  How come everytime someone mentions this card they quote a lower
>price? First it was quoted as $300, then $200, then $150, and now
>$100?

   Because prices on these video boards keep falling.  I have actually
seen Super VGA video cards (800x600 with 16 colors out of 256K) for $75.

>[Devil's Advocate mode]
>18 bit palette is not adequate for displaying fleshtones or
>grey-scale data! You only have 64 grey levels (6 bits) compared to the
>miracle of CD-I which has 256! VGA is not adequate, it's a hack!
>Fix the problem at the source, trash MS-DOS computers!
>[Devil's Advocate mode off]

   You are obviously trying to get at me with sarcastic comments such as
this, so I am going to do something that will really get you irritiated:
I am going to agree with you.

   I do not like IBM systems.  I hate them with a passion, in fact.  This
is why I always push MAC systems in my arguements.  I find the resolutions
of VGA to be interesting (and useful as flame-fuel), but I find VGA 
palettes to be too limited compared to the 24-bit palettes of MAC and
CD-I systems.

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