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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
Message-ID: <9106281435.51@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 91 23:35:00 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
>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.

No, I am saying that it takes a $2000 graphic card to do real video animation
on a PC at 320x200 or 640x400.  I have been using PCs with all kinds of video
cards and all levels of processors for far longer than I have owned an Amiga.
I don't imply that the Amiga's chipset will do what a $2000 PC graphics card
will do, what I do imply is that I haven't seen any great changes in PC
graphics except in resolution and colors.  Amiga has fast animation.  If you
want fast animation on a pc, you have to pay the money.

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

And what is the diagonal measurement?  14 inches?  Is it multisync?
And what is it's maximum resolution?

By the way, rmkhome, where this article is coming from, is a 286 clone running
Coherent and Cnews.  I avoid MSDOS for home use.

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