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From: farren@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reactions to IBM PC2 graphics
Message-ID: <1964@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 09:49:52 EST
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1964
Posted: Mon Apr  6 09:49:52 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Apr-87 04:29:27 EST
References: <10726@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren)
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Keywords: VGA Killer graphics

In article <10726@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) writes:
>Has anyone seen the specs on the $1700 2 drive Model 30 PC2 graphics card?
>
>This thing whips the Amy vid chip.  The VGA ("something" graphics adapter)
>has 256 on screen colors from a palette of 22k.  All from an IBM that retails
>for less then $2000.  What gives?  I don't understand.  I know it can't
>be as good as it seems (after all its IBM :-)
>
>One good note:  It's 8086 based running at 8 Mgtz.  Old technology, typical
>		IBM.

VGA = Video Gate Array.  Not an adapter, it lives on the motherboard.  Also,
it's 256 colors out of 262,000.  Also has 640 X 480 (nice!).

Doesn't "whip the Amy vid chip".  No blitter.  No copper.  No HAM. 

Also, don't forget that the $1700 does NOT include a monitor ($500 extra).

An 8086 at 8MHz (by the way, is that Megateasers you've got up there?) is
something like 3X faster than the stock PC.  Old technology has some real
advantages, too.  The rumored margin on the $1700 PC is $1000, so it's
conceivable that you could see 'em for $1000.  Old tech is reliable, and
C*H*E*A*P!

I'm still an Amiga fanatic, but the new IBM stuff looks o.k., for IBM stuff.
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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
hoptoad!farren       Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"