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From: jesup@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reactions to IBM PC2 graphics
Message-ID: <1447@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 17:17:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 14 17:17:12 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Apr-87 03:24:34 EST
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Reply-To: jesup@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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[This is in response to GRR's request for ideas concerning improvements
 to the graphics chips]

	Well, how about this:

	Have a monochrome mode to the chips:  low res monochrome and 
high-res monochrome.  Low res would be the same bandwidth as 640x200x2planes:
640x400 monochrome.   This would eat NO processor cycles.
High res would be the equivalent of 640x200x4planes, arranged either as
1280x400 (kind of bizzarre), or maybe 1024x500, or 800x640.  The monochrome
would be fairly easy to generate.  The main difference would be the change
in the output signals (should it be colors 0/1, or just real monochrome?)

	Up the number of bits in the color registers (8 bits? pretty please?)
Of course HAM would affect the upper four bits of the color values, not the
lower four.  (Functionally the same.)

	Randell Jesup
	jesup@steinmetz.uucp
	jesup@ge-crd.arpa