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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: rasterops (an alternate view)
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 15:00:22 EDT
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> Unfortunately, these same chips are being hawked as Great Stuff for hi-res
> monochrome as well, which they aren't.  I find no particular indication
> that the designers specifically intended them for color and only for color,
> especially since they have no monochrome counterparts.

How about this for pure speculation:  perhaps the chip manufacturers
feel that the potential customers for such a chip (monochrome raster-op)
would use a mass-market micro instead (Macintosh, Atari ST, Amiga,
etc.).  And those micros use in-house developed custom LSI instead of an
off-the-shelf graphics controller.  Ergo, limited market for a complex
and expensive part.  Does that make sense?
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Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug