Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mike
From: mike@ames.arpa (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PVA beats MACII
Message-ID: <7254@ames.arpa>
Date: 12 Apr 88 00:30:45 GMT
References: <37323R38@PSUVM> <1962@dino.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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In article <1962@dino.ulowell.edu> miner@dino.ulowell.edu (Rich Miner) writes:
>In article <37323R38@PSUVM> R38@PSUVM.BITNET (aka Marc Rifkin) writes:
[wasted stuff about PVA vs. Mack Two graphics ]
>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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Just wait til 1.4 (1.5? 1.XXX). Such a beast is in the works "reported a
highly placed Amigazoid source" at a BAADGE meeting from a few months ago.
I can't name the source, but he answers to "duck".



*** mike ***








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			   *** mike (Cyberpunk in training) smithwick ***
"After all, isn't our only real purpose in life merely to make the person
 next to us slightly more insane than we are?" - Me
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