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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.204914.5507@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Jun 91 20:49:14 GMT
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gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:

>Skip that, go with 2.0.  HUGE workbenches.  16384x16384 on mine, and
>then use some of the Commodities.

  Presumably, the screen has to be stored in memory.  16384 x 16384
even at 1 bit/pixel = 32MB RAM.  A bit excessive?

>Let's see.  16384/640=25.6, and since my 1084 is about a foot wide,
>that's 25.6 feet wide, by... 16384/400=40.96, x9", gives me 25.6 feet
>by 30.72 feet.  Kind of puts the Mac to shame, dontcha think???  :)

  Not really.  QuickDraw supports a coordinate space of 65536 x 65536.
If you had enough memory, supposedly you could create a virtual screen this
big.  At 72 dpi, that's 23 m x 23 m.



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