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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David L. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My disillusioned self.
Message-ID: <11540176@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 89 23:44:10 GMT
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/ hpsmtc1:comp.sys.mac / mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu / 10:38 am  Feb 28, 1989 /


>>(In case you hadn't noticed, graphics on a PC is a lot slower than on
>>a macintosh, due to extensive SOFTWARE optimization in quickdraw)

>What graphics software are you running? All the graphics I have seen
>on Mac's was much slower than the stuff I use on my PC (assuming
>equivalent cpu speeds). The only slow graphics I see on my PC
>is Autocad. Remember that normal non-II macs have a VERY tiny 342x512
>useful area screen. PC's these days normally use 480x640. I have

Unless you are still in CGA mode or EGA. The mac II display is superior to
these. Check out a GIF image running on an X windows display vs a Mac--
No CONTEST--The Mac renders a better display. Has VGA become the dominant
installed video base for PC's?

>NEVER seen animation work really right on a MAC - I have seen it on
 ^^^^^
Oh really? Try Videoworks II on a Mac in 256 glorious colors...works just
fine for me! Or Aegis's Showcase F/X in the same environment. Or try the
Videoworks Accelerator.

>PC's (in 16 or more colors).

Ok, try SuperMacs or RasterOps 24bit video card and check out the crispness
and the animation quality. 

Frankly I've been UNDERWHELMED by the display quality and crispness on 
PC's. 

-David