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Subject: more paperwhite monitors...
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Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 07:28:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  9 07:28:36 1987
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Yes, I was also very close to buying an Atari ST simply on account of
its monochrome quality (I bought the Amiga mainly because it offered a
multitasking operating system). I am very disappointed that the Amiga
2000 does not have a high-resolution monochrome mode. If Atari comes
out with the enhanced ST with ~1kx700 pixels resolution, for me there
is little question what machine I will get, money permitting. Worse
yet, the availability of colours on the Amiga seems to prompt everybody
to use them, even though often they are not needed: a word-processor,
an illustration graphics program, the workbench, &c. don't need colour,
and use of the extra bitplanes eats up memory and slows graphics
operations and text output tremendously (the Amiga graphics kernel
is apparently not very efficient anyhow, despite the blitter).

						Thomas.