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From: spencer@eris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: more paperwhite monitors...
Message-ID: <2762@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 14:32:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 11 14:32:44 1987
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Reply-To: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
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In article <49@mit-prep.ARPA> tmb@mit-prep.ARPA (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
>Yes, I was also very close to buying an Atari ST simply on account of
>its monochrome quality...
>
>...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.

All I can say to that is, I hope this guy is very happy with his new Atari.
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