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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 18 Dec 89 23:26:03 GMT
References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <4574@ur-cc.UUCP> <37366@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <37366@apple.Apple.COM> rewing@Apple.COM (Richard Ewing) writes:
>Latest video technology?  You call VGA and 8514/A the latest technology????
>BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!  Now that's really good!  C'mon now.  I can
>get 24-bit  truecolor cards that actually have an Apple defined
>video standard behind them for under $1000!  Get real on this subject.

VGA or 8514/A will satisfy about 75-80% of the people who aren't after
absolute top-of-the-line graphics capability. For those that are,
there are a number of graphics cards that make VGA look like CGA used
to. Targa boards, Number Nine's graphics cards, and so on. Most of
them have been around for several years, and the high-end graphics
software as well, with improvements appearing as the high end hardware
improves.

Once the third-party developers decided that IBM wasn't going where
the market existed, they struck out on their own and built their own
video hardware; IBM hasn't been on the cutting edge of graphics
technology for years. IBM has a track record of bringing out graphics
hardware that dies in the market -- the PGA controller was the last
one, and the 8514/A looks to be the next one. Pointing out IBM's
developments as a subject of ridicule simply shows that you don't pay
attention to the industry, and have inadvertantly or deliberately
committed a straw man fallacy in your argument.


 Sean Malloy                                   | "The Crystal Wind is the
 Navy Personnel Research & Development Center  | Storm, and the Storm is Data,
 San Diego, CA 92152-6800                      | and the Data is Life."
 malloy@nprdc.navy.mil                         | -- _Emerald Eyes_, D.K. Moran