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From: rjc@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 17:10:05 GMT
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In article <1156@stewart.UUCP> jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>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

   Wrong, the A2410 Card has a 34010 onboard and supports up to 1024x124
with 8bits per pixel, and a palette of 16.7 million colors.

>card does low-res animation just as well as the Amiga, but with more colors
>(256 at 320x200).

 And HAM-E(~$250) provides 256 colors simult. with a palette of 16.7 million, 
or in it' HAM mode, it provides 262,144 colors simultaneously.
 DCTV(~$450, comes with digitizer) provides ~4 million colors simultaneously.
 Colorburst( ~$500) provides 16.7 million colors at once at around ~12 fps.

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

  He wasn't. He was showing that a megapixel display with lots of colors
needs either a co-processor (i860 or 34010) or a fast processor
(68040 like a NeXT).
  It would be stupid to compare a $2k card to the Amiga's chipset. but if you
want high performance, you pay for it. A $100 SuperVGA card doesn't make
your PC isn't a Silicon Graphics Workstation.


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