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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The New IBM Wonder-Toys
Message-ID: <1495@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 20:01:34 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1495
Posted: Mon Apr 20 20:01:34 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Apr-87 03:25:37 EST
References: <1177@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
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Keywords: PC AT XT PS/2 barf aggh ugh

In article <1177@spice.cs.cmu.edu> mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
>including video circuitry on the mother board that handles 640x480
>with 256 colors simultaneous out of 262,000.  The pictures it

The specs I saw said you get 256 colors in the 320x200 mode and only
16 in the 640x480 mode.

>announced (two models, low end 16 Mhz, high end 20 Mhz).  The
>expansion bus is proprietary and is also auto-config, if I understood
>the saleslady correctly (she was glowing about how the auto-config
>"intelligence is distributed across the machine.")

What I thought was funny was watching the IBM salesman on 'The Computer
Show' demonstrate the advantages of the new 3-1/2 inch drive "See, you 
can put them in your pocket" and being reminded of the Apple guys doing
that some 3 years ago.

Keith Doyle
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