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From: tws@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Thomas Sarver)
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Subject: Re: Ideas for New Custom Chips
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Date: 2 Jul 88 09:16:26 GMT
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In article <10134@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
|In article <3128@polya.Stanford.EDU| rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
||In order for the Amiga to compete in the current marketplace, the
||machine should have at *least* the following features:
||	* 4096 color registers, 16 million colors
|
|This is reasonable. Actually even 256 out of 4096 (today) would be good. 
|By the time new chips are developed a 2048-entry LUT and 16M colors
|is probably the minumum.  Competitors are catching up.
|
||	* 2048x2048 resolution, non-interlaced, on a standard TV
|
|NO WAY.  Max resolutions, including overscan, are as follows:
|
|NTSC	RS-170A		756x486
|PAL	CCIR-624	738x576
|
|  [Various serious replies to jovial remarks]
|
|You must be kidding, right? But then I see no :-)
|
|-- Marco Papa 'Doc'

Come on folks, don't wait for the :-> to tip you off.  Most of us realized
that these were ramblings of a madman.  The moral of the story is "We all
would like a more powerful computer."  The reality is that manufacturers have
to weigh price and marketability against gee-whiz-bang technology.  Let's face
it:  Technology doesn't make it to the consumer until at least 1.5 years later.
Previous to that its just a board sitting in somebody's computer with $500 of
interface hardware.

OK? Next time read between the lines.  I know that on a VT100 you have to set
it to 132 col mode to do this, but it's worth the effort :->
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"The complexity of a system is proportional to the factorial of its atoms.  One
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finds oneself."
	-TWS

Addendum: "... or migrate to a less complex micro-system."