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From: flaig@cit-vlsi.Caltech.Edu (Charles M. Flaig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Video displays.
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Date: 22 Apr 88 21:20:25 GMT
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In article <2213@louie.udel.EDU> dsill@nswc-oas.arpa (Dave Sill) writes:
>>You know, I never could understand why people want such high resolution color
>>monitors.
>
>>The *ONLY* valid application I can see for them is CAD, and very
>>few people need to do this at home.
>
>Perhaps you've just become conditioned to expect only what the current
>technology can deliver. [Talks about CPU and memory views 10 years ago.]

But that's exactly what I base my reasoning on: what the current technology
(ie. Amiga 3000) can handle.  I'm not talking about 10 or 20 years in the
future, and strongly agree that higher resolution displays will be useful
then.  They will even become useful after we have an HDTV standard we can
base them on.  But *right now* we don't have the CPU power available on a
home machine to do justice to a high resolution color display.  If you give
me a 2Kx2K color display, I darned well want you to give me a 256-node
Ametek 2010 to run it with, too!  For under $10K since we are talking about
the home market! :-)  See my point?

[ Mouth watering dreams for the *future* deleted. ]

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