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Subject: RE: Re: System 7.0 Q & A
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Date: 10 May 89 03:14:00 GMT
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Hi Rob, good to talk to you again,

As far as support for gray-scaled, anti-aliased fonts, I'm not sure how
(or if) we plan to support it.  I do know that this kind of font technology
*is* supported under the current bit-mapped font structure, as any font
using the NFNT resource type can be 4 or 8 bits deep in color or gray
scale.  I would suspect we would not leave this support out, but considering
the font tecnology is completely different, I wouldn't know without
briefing from the tech folks in Cupertino.

There are no cheap 68030 upgrades for the II.  I think the cheapest way
to fly would be to get an upgrade logic board to a IIx, although this
gets you only 15% new speed and a promise for VM later.  The Daystar
and Siclone accelerator boards all run about 6000-7000 dollars, and
are prohibitively expensive for the average college user, like yourself.
I would get a 68851 PMMU chip for your II if you plan to keep it, which
you can get under $500 dollars.  If you went to Macworld, you could have
gotten the Virtual INIT and a PMMU for about $300 bucks (great deal!)
If you want more advice, talk to me direct, via Bitnet.

--Rick Ewing
  Apple Atlanta
  REWING@TRINCC