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From: ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Paperwhite
Message-ID: <2098@alvin.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 01:04:59 EST
Article-I.D.: alvin.2098
Posted: Mon Mar  9 01:04:59 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Mar-87 20:14:26 EST
References: <8703081013.AA13924@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: ravi@alvin.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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Keywords: monochrome monitors
Summary: I disagree, but read the whole thing before ordering a launch..

In article <8703081013.AA13924@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>>My question: why? I have an Atari ST at home and must say I
>>adore the monochrome monitor. .............
>>..... I very much like the solution Atari
>>adopted to overcome the dilemma of color- and monochrome
>>applications. That is: use a color monitor for games and a monochrome
>>monitor for business-like applications.
>
>	Monocrome *is* nice, but Atari screwed up by not integrating
>monocrome/color into the operating system easily.  For that price, I'll
>take a color-only (e.g. Amiga) anyday and simply get a good monitor.  
>
>I have both an Amiga with a KV-1311CR analog RGB color monitor, and an 
>IBM-XT with a monocrome monitor.  Although the monocrome does look better, 
>it doesn't look all that much better.  [.........]

	There simply isn't any comparison between the XT's monochrome
and the ST's monochrome.   One major reason I bought my ST is the quality
of it's mono. display;   I'd played quite a bit with a friend's Amiga
before I got the ST, and I felt that the color display didn't even
come close wrt. sharpness and suitability for prolonged useage (I'm
			      --------------------------------
refering to the lower-res mode, the interlace mode is too hard on the
eyes for even moderate useage with an 80 col. text-only screen).

>My personal opinion is that Atari screwed up by having their two different
>overall video modes require different physical monitors.

	Strrong vords here, ve demand dissent! 8^) Seriously, 
I don't know what options were available to Atari, and why
they chose to have 2 different monitors, but I for one am very happy
with the resulting mono. monitor; I have no use for a fancy color monitor,
my old composite monitor is adequate when I need it.  I *do* have a
need for a good, flicker free, SHARP white-on-black monitor, and I'm
glad Atari didn't compromise on it's quality in order to add in color.

	Please let's not start another war here.. my basic point is
that the ST's monochrome is quite better than the kind we saw in it's
price range previously (the Princeton Graphics or Wyse hi-res mono's
for the IBM cost more than my whole system..)   If someone feels like
kicking off a generic mono vs. color debate, that's another issue
altogether! 

								-ravi

ps:  besides, the mono comes in handy when my schizophrenic ST's other
half from the Mac world comes to visit..