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From: shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: TurboRez
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Date: 21 Dec 89 02:34:47 GMT
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>o  320 * 200 pixel resolution with 256 colors per scan line
>o  640 * 400 pixel resolution with 16 colors per scan line
>o  Proprietary "blitter" chip to hustle graphics even faster
>o  1 Megabyte of onboard video RAM - at 64K a page, lots of room
>   for page flipping!  Picture perfect animation and rendering!
>o  Hooks and maybe toolbox patches to hook to existing software
>o  Suggested retail around $375-$400


Are they releasing information on how to write software using the board's
capabilities?  
That would be helpful, since I would think that software compatibility
would be their biggest problem.  Otherwise it souinds really neat.
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Subash Shankar             Honeywell Systems & Research Center
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