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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
Message-ID: <7408@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 30 Sep 88 09:12:19 GMT
References: <7349@gryphon.CTS.COM> <5675@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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(did ya ever notice that discussions in comp.sys.nnn usually
end up being about micros in general, and don't specifically
pertain to nnn ?)

elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
>I wrote:
>> 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. 

Uhh, in case you hadn't noticed, RGB monitors have been around
longer than DRAMS, and while yes, they are getting cheaper,
they will never be cheap.

Televisions are cheap because they are standard. But there's no standard
for RGB monitors.

Plus, some of the neat resolution (> 1K) monitors use ungodly
circuitry and components (read $$$)

>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

I'll agree to a point. I dont think monitors will ever be cheap
unless everybody agrees on a standard - which is at best unlikely.

>and single-source the 8087 -- which has stayed above $100 for as long
>as I can remember). 

I understand thats because of 1) high demand, 2) low yields.

>Q: How is Amigaworld like a (void) function?
>A: Neither returns anything of value.

Yes, I cancelled my subscription. Our budgie died.

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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard