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From: donw@zinfandel.zehntel.com (Don White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:The A3000
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Date: 26 Apr 88 19:43:27 GMT
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Reply-To: donw@zinfandel.zehntel.com (Don White)
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In article <8018@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> flaig@cit-clsi.Caltech.Edu (Charles M. Flaig )
writes:
>In article <3467@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>In article <549@zehntel.UUCP> donw@beaujolais (Don White) writes:
>>>
>>>     Wouldn't it be nice if ALL the current Amy NTSC graphics modes were kept
>>>  as a SUBSET of the overall graphics capability? That way, it would still
>>>  be THE desktop video machine, AND it could service those Hi Res-ophiles!
>>>  (1000x800 grin, or 2000x2000 grin grin, or 1Meg x 1Meg grin of wooly
>>>  mammoth proportions)
>>
>>The problem is, sport, that monitors in this range cost more than
>>a used porsche.
>
>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.  And I think workstations should have

     I'm sorry for the lack of obvious smileys. I guess no one got it!

     Doesn't the 2000 have a VIDEO SLOT? Wasn't the purpose of this slot to
  make the super exceptional (and yes, Richard, EXPENSIVE) hi-res graphics
  OPTIONAL?!?!?! When (and if) it came out, you could get a reletively 
  inexpensive monitor and just do NTSC, OR you get get a plug-in and a more
  costly monitor and blaze.

     I guess the bottom line here is.. Do we need an Amy 3000? I don't think
  we've scratched the surface of the 2000. Every feature I have heard of for
  the 3000 COULD BE an expansion for the 2000!

     It feels to me like commodore is running from one peice of new hardware
  to another like a kid in a candy store. How can the hardware mature in that
  kind of environment?


  P.S. Richard, you seem awful familiar. Do I remember you from somewhere?
  (Besides here of course.)