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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP
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Subject: SuperMac or Mac II color boards
Message-ID: <3682@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 03:54:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 03:54:39 1987
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Keywords: SIMMS, 256k, MacII


   Ok Mac people. Here's a chance to enlighten another person into the joys
of macness.

   My father has a Hp300 series machine at home. He uses this to run HP-BASIC
and MS-DOS under HP-UX (are you laughing yet?). After many frustrating hours
fighting with the dos-coprocessor, the single-user unix execution shell the
dos board runs under, he said that if he could use his color monitor 
 19" sony RGB Part No: GDM-1902-12)  he would buy a Mac II. If only to run
DOS under (he thinks, I know him too well, in two weeks he'll be shredding
5.25 disks, and proclaiming the joys of Finding)

  Now comes the problem: I've tried calling SuperMac and all I've gotten is
promises to call me back (no callbacks though after about 1 Month). Does
anyone have a MacII with a Spectrum video card as well as access to a 
Hp320  (Model 9000 series 320) who can test it? Barring this does anyone
have access to the list of monitors the Spectrum board works with?

   Completely seperate point: SM announced a new 24 bit resolution color board.
Does this board have a graphics processor on it or is it just horrendously slow
? (not ness horrendously slow but the idea of moving 3 bytes around everytime
you need to change a pixel makes me shiver). Also shouldn't the Mac II be
FASTER in 256 color mode since it can move a whole byte rather then only setting
the bits in the nybble?

  Pierce Wetter

Where humor is concerned there are no standards -- no one can say what
is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
		-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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