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From: farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: New graphics capabilities
Message-ID: <2085@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sun, 3-May-87 19:52:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  3 19:52:32 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 4-May-87 01:37:37 EDT
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In article <709@imsvax.UUCP> paul@imsvax.UUCP (Paul Knight) writes:
>The heart of
>the board is the single TI chip;  the thing should be cheap to produce, 
>have.  By this summer, there should be at least a dozen such products on
>the market for $500 or less, and the price of serious graphics monitors
>should tumble as more and more are produced.  

I thought that the TI chip was expensive, like on the order of
hundreds of dollars each.  If this is so, it'll be hard for there to
be "at least a dozen ... for $500 or less".  Besides, don't forget to
include the cost of a monitor in there, along with the driver software
(can you say "non-standard"?  I knew you could.) to run the thingie.
I'd say more like $2K for a complete setup, at least.

>The only losers I can see in any of this will be the unfortunate purchasers
>of the new IBM machines, who will be stuck with 640x480 graphics until the
>day of judgement.

Funny, I didn't feel the rapture :->  If you look at the IBM
announcements, you will notice that the hooks are already there for
high-res graphics, and that IBM will be introducing product to support
it, including a monitor and card set to allow for somthing close to 1K
X 1K. (don't have the real figures on hand.)

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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"