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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
Message-ID: <1156@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 91 19:06:08 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.200326.16487@bmerh409.bnr.ca> <1991Jun21.024820.27900@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <1991Jun21.073046.8276@ncsu.edu> <1991Jun21.113939.14446@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <9106221550.03@rmkhome.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <9106221550.03@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>
>Of course, you can buy a high end SVGA board that does 1280x1024 with 256
>gray scales and mucho colors.  It will have a TI34xxx processor, and 16 megs
>of ram, and Z-buffers, etc.  You to can get great animation from your 386 or
>486 pc for just $2000-$4000 for the graphics card.  Since you have spent all
>this money for the card, then you should get a .25mm dot pitch monitor.  At
>about $1000-$2000.
>
>So that's good animation for $3000-$6000 plus the price of the 386 or 486
>box.
>

Really?  And how much would it cost to equip an Amiga with similar
capabilities?  Well, it would have to go beyond payment, since such products
don't happen to exist for the Amiga.  The real truth is that a standard VGA
card does low-res animation just as well as the Amiga, but with more colors
(256 at 320x200).

Don't kid yourself by implying that the Amiga video chipset rivals that of
a $2K graphics adapter for a PC.

By the way, I picked up my .25mm dot pitch Seiko CM-1440 for $459.

>Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
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