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From: wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne C Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: (A) Amy 500 -> 2000? (B) 68040 vs. gfx coprocessor
Message-ID: <5595@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 21:00:58 GMT
References: <9002130521.AA09589@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <9002130521.AA09589@jade.berkeley.edu>, GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) writes:
  ...

This conversation was in email and should have been left in email.  I getting
tried of the people in this news group that can't conduct themselfs in a 
professional matter.   Not only do I feel insulted by this, but important
parts of my email was left out, presenting a very slanted picture.  To top
things off this thread belongs in comp.sys.amiga.hardware where it started.
I have no reason clue as to why Mr. Gorrie did not seen fit to leave the
the discussion in email.  Further more posting people's email is a clear 
violation of rules presented for net use and shows very poor manners. 

However I do believe the points I present to Mr. Gorrie via email are valid.
One, dithering is okay for shading but is very limited in producing totally
new colors.  The graphics I'm involved in are used for animation and places
further limits on how dithering can be used without causing additional  
problems.  Having shifting dithering patterns moving accross an animated 
object is not normally a desired result. Finally dithering reduces the 
resolution of the image.  This is hardly a good result when you are already
force down to 704x480 or lower resolution.   

The other point was about the TI 34010 being a fairly general purpose 
processor.  I think that is a very well accepted fact.  To go on farther,
if someone can't write a blit routine on a 50MHz TI 34010 that can't keep
up 7.5 MHz simple blitter, that sounds a problem with the programer not
the hardware.

Now to finish let me say I'm sorry to the rest of the Amiga people reading
this news group.  If you are offended please send flames to Mr. Gorrie,
maybe he will learn something.

                                           Wayne Knapp