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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Extra-Half-Brite Tutorial and Demo
Message-ID: <3382@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 04:26:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3382
Posted: Mon Jun 22 04:26:08 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Jun-87 04:05:04 EDT
References: <3333@well.UUCP> <1594@stb.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Distribution: world
Organization: Hole Earth 'Lectronic Loss (or words to that effect)
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Keywords: extra, half, baked
Summary: Percentage of machines with EHB

In article <1594@stb.UUCP> michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
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>> all consumer machines have this
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>Not true; mine does not have 1/2 brite, nor does my friend, nor ....
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><Sigh> When will we be able to order a replacement chip?
>-- 
>: Michael Gersten		seismo!scgvaxd!stb!michael

	After encountering three machines without EHB, I asked Dale Luck at
the last BADGE meeting what his estimates were on how many Amiga 1000's have
EHB capability.

	He guessed that the current percentage of Amigas with EHB is about
10%.  I suspect it's a bit higher.  His explanation was that there was
indeed a new rev. of the chip which made it into the first thousand or so
production machines.  Then Commodore started using an older rev. because they
had about 50K of them laying around and didn't want them to go to waste.

	Assuming 50K machines without EHB, and 150K machines in place, I
suspect that percetange is more like 66%.  Hmmm.  Oh well, that's why I
cooked up the 'ehb' program - so you could find out.

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