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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: Suns, support, less money
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Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 16:19:13 EDT
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The MacII video board is an option. You don't have to buy one from apple.
Apple's is available with 4bits per pixel or, by adding more memory, 8bits
per pixel. In either case, these bits indirect through a color table.

The operating system supports multiple display cards with different parameters
you can have a window half on a black and white display, half on a color
display. drag it, and it does the right thing.  There is operating system
support for multiple task arbitration of the hardware color table.

There is a socket on the motherboard for the Motorola MMU chip.

I find the MacII to be a great Macintosh, and I expect it will be an okay
Unix workstation.  Sun makes great workstations, but they are lousy
Macintoshes (no Mac software will run on them :-).  I've found I get a
lot more done on a Macintosh than on a Unix workstation.

--- David Phillip Oster            --My Good News: "I'm a perfectionist."
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --My Bad News: "I don't charge by the hour."
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