Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!ulowell!miner
From: miner@dino.ulowell.edu (Rich Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PVA beats MACII
Message-ID: <1962@dino.ulowell.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 88 06:37:43 GMT
References: <37323R38@PSUVM>
Reply-To: miner@dino.ulowell.edu (Rich Miner)
Organization: University of Lowell Productivity Center, Lowell MA.
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In article <37323R38@PSUVM> R38@PSUVM.BITNET (aka Marc Rifkin) writes:
>At a recent MACshowoff, I found that the MAC II has 16 million colors,
>and a resolution of 640x480.

>And now the PVA graphics card for the A2000 gives 24 bitplanes (at, I
>assume 640x400 or higher in overscan), so then the Amiga can display
>ALL YES ALL 16 million colors at once.|_

I am afraid you are comparing apples to oranges.  The MAC II frame buffers
are used as display replacements.  The entire MAC interface runs on these
cards - windows, menus, ...  The PVA will be used as a video peripheral
providing GenLock, digitizing, and frame buffer capabilities.  It can not
be directly used as a "true color" workbench environment.  Anyone have a
portable, retargetable graphics.library ?
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Rich miner@dino.ulowell.edu   617/452-5000x2693   UL-CPE Imaging Research Lab