Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!hpuamsa!marco
From: marco@hpuamsa.UUCP (Marco Lesmeister)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Amiga or PC-AT ?
Message-ID: <1820006@hpuamsa.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 88 09:02:37 GMT
Organization: HP Amstelveen, The Netherlands
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Hello from Holland,

One year ago I started my work on a ray-tracing program. This was
done on an IBM-AT with a PGC (Professional Graphics Controller?)
card in it. This card provided me with a resolution of 640X480 and
4096 colors. This gave me 16 shades of each color Red, Green and Blue.
This was really on the edge for nice ray-tracing pictures.
Since I graduated and could no longer use this AT, my work kind of 
stopped and now is the time for me to continue this really exciting
work, so I am looking for a computer which is good enough for this
kind of work.

I am thinking of buying an AT-clone with some graphics card in it,
or maybe a commodore amiga would suit me just fine, but then I could
not make use of the mountain of DOS applications currently available.

So, what should I do, should I buy a cheap AT with an expensive 
monitor and an expensive graphics card (which one should I buy?), or
should I buy an amiga with the disadvantage that I can't expand the
graphics capabillities.

So to all you PC and amiga fans out there, I ask you which solution
is better?

Greetings,

Marco Lesmeister, HP Holland.