Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga is NOT a multi-tasking computer system !!
Message-ID: <4575@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 17:18:46 GMT
References: <345@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <345@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>, dnelson@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Dru Nelson) says:

>> Maybe this time next year Apple and IBM will introduce
>> yet another new concept, Genlocked video !! We'll see..

> The Mac II has very good Genlocked video, the 400 vertical resolution
> helps a whole lot (c'mon Commodore/Amiga, get that thing working)

Huh?  You can't Genlock the Mac II's standard video (which is 480 lines,
by the way, not 400).  At Comdex I some a company selling a Genlock 
system for it, which is basically a reverse flickerFixer -- feed in 
31kHz video, get NTSC out.  It looked OK showing a static image, which
is all they were displaying on the Mac.  It also cost around $1500,
which would buy you a nice A500 SYSTEM.

What the Mac II does have is a sharp, non-interlaced, 640x480 display.
You can get something similar on an Amiga with a flickerFixer today,
or wait awhile for a chip upgrade.  The Mac will still have more
possible colors.

> Dru Nelson                    UUCP: (gould || uunet)!umbio!dnelson
> Miami, Florida                 MCI: dnelson
>                           Internet: dnelson%umbio@umigw.miami.edu
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