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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
Message-ID: <5675@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 30 Sep 88 00:06:24 GMT
References: <7349@gryphon.CTS.COM>
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in article <7349@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) says:
> in a required evil to be NTSC compatible. You can get a flicker
> fixer or wait till the rev of the chips that supports non-interlaced
> 400 line video. On a very expensive monitor.

Uh, in case you haven't noticed, hi-res monitors are steadily
decreasing in price. e.g. scanning through Computer Shopper I see a
VGA card/monitor combo for less than $600... which is a lot if you
just bought a $600 computer (an Amiga 500), but if you just spent
$2000 for an Amiga 2000, it's peanuts. 

I suspect the day is rapidly approaching when someone will be able to
put together a serious hi-res engineering workstation, with 68030, hi
res monitor, and large disk drive (perhaps one of the new read/write
magneto-optical devices), for a price less than a plain bare-bones Mac
][ right now. The monitors are getting cheap enough, the optical disks
allow you to have a huge storage capacity (needed for heavily
graphics-based systems and large virtual-memory operating systems),
the processors won't stay expensive forever (unless you do like Intel,
and single-source the 8087 -- which has stayed above $100 for as long
as I can remember). The biggest problem right now is RAM. Again, that
won't be forever... eventually, you'll be able to buy a megabyte for
$100.

Maybe someday I'll even be able to afford one ;-).
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