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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
Message-ID: <1166@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 91 17:58:04 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> <1156@stewart.UUCP> <9106281435.51@rmkhome.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
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In article <9106281435.51@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>
>No, I am saying that it takes a $2000 graphic card to do real video animation
>on a PC at 320x200 or 640x400.
>

Oh come on.  Any decent VGA inside a 12-16MHz PC can animate 320x200 just fine,
in 256 out 256K colors.  Yes, I know that it's not fair to compare 16MHz to
the Amiga's 8MHz, but then again it's not fair to compare 256 colors to 16.

>
>>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?
>

Yep, it's 14 inches, multisync, and its maximum resolution is 1024x768
interlaced.  It uses a Trinitron tube (.25mm dot pitch), which is cylindrical,
not spherical, and contains a single gun (perfect convergence).  If you can
use it with the Amiga, I suggest you take a look at it.  By the way, the
CM-1450 is non-interlaced at 1024x768 and can be had for about $550.

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

Me too.

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