Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!aurora!riacs!julian
From: julian@riacs.edu (Julian E Gomez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: nuVista
Keywords: macII ATT graphics
Message-ID: <715@hydra.riacs.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 88 05:05:37 GMT
References: <394@houxj.UUCP> <6606@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: julian@hydra.riacs.edu.UUCP (Julian E Gomez)
Organization: RIACS, Moffett Field, CA
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In article <6606@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP () writes:
> Yes, I saw it, too, and was most impressed.  However, they didn't show the
> QuickDraw interface, so I'd be a little cautious right now.
That's because TrueVision hasn't finished the QuickDraw interface and
doesn't expect to until March.  The tech guy I talked to also told me
they haven't even frozen the hardware specs yet.

> For those who didn't see it, we are talking about 24-bit color here.  If you've
> ever seen 24-bit color, you can never again be satisfied with 8 bit color.
Amen. I've been using 24 bit frame buffers since 1979, and find 8 bit
frame buffers fit only for monitor windows or greyscale.

> There was also another video card (can't remeber the name; my poop sheets are
> at home) that was actual showing a Mac application running, with the desktop
> being a video image from a camera rather than the usual gray.  Imagine, not
> only can you get lost in you Mac playing with graphics, but you could watch
> television, too?!?!?!?!
Computer Friends. Also check out PixelLogic.


The video board running in the Jasmine booth was a RasterOps board.

An advantage the RasterOps and TrueVision boards have over the SuperMac
board is an onboard 34010.  Neither company uses (or will use) it in
the initial version of their software. TrueVision plans to provide a C
cross compiler so the user can program it.

-- 
"Be alert ... the world needs more lerts!"

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
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