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From: muir@postgres.uucp (David Muir Sharnoff)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The 3G Machine
Message-ID: <6819@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 88 23:11:12 GMT
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In article <470@oracle.UUCP> csimmons@oracle.UUCP (Charles Simmons) writes:
>The most awesome display that I can imagine having (guess what I
>want HDTV to standardize on...) is a 2Kx2K color display having
>24 bits per color.  That basically requires 12 Megabytes, which
>seems a far cry from the type of display that a 3G machine should have.

You can do much better than 2Kx2K...  I've always wanted a 3'x4'
display at >300dpi and >= 24 bits deep..  The display would take >445MB
and that should be enough to burden even a 3G machine.

On the other hand, I don't think anyone is going to think it worth
building such a display until machines that are 1G by other criteria
are OLD news.   Perhaps it will be a possible display for the 3T machines.

-Dave