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From: DYOUNG@USC-ISID.ARPA (C. David Young)
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Subject: Re: --- 80 -col boards ---
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 08:15:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 13 08:15:39 1985
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This message is to clarify Richard Hartman's message and to fill in a
couple of holes. First of all, it was Kevin Meis who did a review of
OMNIVIEW a few days ago. Thank you, Kevin. Just let me point out that
there is an OMNIVIEW made for every ATARI 8 bitter except the 1200. In
addition to 80 column output, they all have other features including
resident ramdisk handlers.

The other 80 column board with RGB output was the Austin-Franklin. The
people who have this board seem to really like it but it wasn't around
for very long.

Both ATARI and Batteries Included had both announced plans to come out
with 80 column boards but have since dropped them. I am proud to be the
only survivor in the 80 column world!

In all fairness I must mention another 80 column output that I have
heard of but not seen. Called the ACE 80, it resides in the cartridge
address space and works with Letter Perfect and Basic. I don't see how
this can be very useful since it takes up so much memory space (OMNIVIEW
resides out of the way in the $C000 page). Besides this, I would not be
surprised if it is not a ripoff of OMNIVIEW. If I am wrong, somebody
please correct me.

David Young
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