Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!noao!asuvax!mcdphx!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: High-res Graphics Board for Amy (1024x1024x256 colors) Summary: Here is some info Message-ID: <662@corpane.UUCP> Date: 22 May 89 16:50:55 GMT References: <648@corpane.UUCP> <3060@cps3xx.UUCP> Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc. Lines: 52 I recieved this Email from John Schilling at Commodore. Since this subject actually stirred up some interest I am posting his mail here. I hope you don't mind John. ----- From: John Schilling QA As a technology preview we displayed a prototype HRG board at CeBIT in Hannover, West Germany in March. It is a nice board--it uses the TI 34010 graphics processor and uses TIGA libraries. You can estimate the cost of such a board [IT IS NOT CURRENTLY A PRODUCT --AND IT MAY NEVER BE A PRODUCT--ITS JUST A TECH PREVIEW!!!] AT AROUND $3000 AT CURRENT RAM chip costs--the board has 2Mb of very fast RAM in it!!!! The cheapest monitor you can hook it up to right now is around $1400 (monochrome--$1900 color) Its very nice, but for the $8000 such a system would coest, its too pricely right now... (but it is soooo sweeetttt!) John Schilling, QA P.S. I disclaim everything--I don't even take responcability for the things I say... ******************************************************************************* * John Schilling Assoc. Engineer, Quality Assurance Technical Support * * uucp: {ihnp4|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jss Commodore Business Machines * *=============================================================================* * "...I just do eyes..." * ******************************************************************************* ----------- end of included message Now, I would love to see this board come to market, but it is unlikely unless we can convince Commodore Marketing that the Amiga could make a very nice workstation with this board. Can you see a 68030 Amiga, with this board, about 8 megs of memory and Ethernet? It would blow away Macs, IBM, Apollo, Vaxen, and Sun's! John Sparks -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps [not for RHF] | sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise.