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From: hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1024X800 Monitor
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Date: 4 Aug 88 18:15:00 GMT
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Written  9:31 am  Aug  3, 1988 by joe@dayton.UUCP in comp.sys.amiga:
> Oh, Chuck!  Why in the world would anyone want to use a two-bitplane screen
> when they're using a black&white monitor to display the contents?  Seems to
> me you can only display one color (white) at a time, so a single bitplane
> sounds like plenty.....

The 2024 is actually a GREY-SCALE monitor.  >1 bitplane gives you shades of
grey.  Using multiple colors (ie, greyscale) to make up an image, you could
then have ANTIALIASED FONTS.  With software to take advantage of this, the 
Amiga might turn into the envy of the desktop publishing world!

Who was it at the AmiExpo AWG session who suggested a group to work on color
fonts and graphics issues?  In addition to color fonts for video, I'd say
the potential impact of the 2024 in desktop publishing makes this an
important area for further work.

				< Lionel

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