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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EXTRA_HALFBRITE (was V1.3 OS?)
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Date: 8 Mar 88 17:58:18 GMT
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In article <5302@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
> ... That means 10% were shipped without EHB.  Since some A1000
>owners have installed new rev denises,

	Some?  140,000?

>and since there are probably
>more Amigas out there than the >500,000 that CBM reported (on BIX
>amiga.dev/market.info in case you are interested) in January, we're
>under 10%.
>
>EXTRA_HALFBRITE: consider it standard.

	Let's cut the nonsense and figure tossing and treat EHB
availability as it is -- most Amiga owners have it and a small handful
don't.  It is  n o t  standard.  Single floppy drive?  That  i s  standard.
How about 512K RAM?  It's not standard either but we still see "512K needed"
on the package.

	I'm not saying don't use EHB.	Hell, I don't even remember exactly
what it does and how it works.  I  a m  asking that if EHB is used, don't make
it so that the application is unusable by the have nots; and if this isn't
possible, let us know and put on the front of the package right under "512K
needed."

	I'm also disturbed that your stance sounds very much that taken by
people who considered the amount of Amigas in the market place to be zero,
rounded to the nearest million (though this doesn't hold true now).  With all
respects, I expected something better from you.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

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>Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page