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From: vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com (Mark F Vita)
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Subject: Re: Color video cards info
Keywords: video, color, Radius, RasterOps, SuperMac
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Date: 9 Mar 90 21:29:04 GMT
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In article <1990Mar9.004044.16761@eddie.mit.edu> cht@athena.mit.edu (Chester Liu) writes:
>Hi,
>	I am on the verge of buying a MacIIcx color system with
>Apple's 13" RGB monitor.  Having future upgrades and expansion
>in mind, I don't want to buy Apple's 8-bit board because it
>cannot be upgraded to any future 24-bit boards.

Wait a couple of weeks.  According to MacWEEK, on March 19, Apple will
rolling out (in addition to the IIfx) three new video cards to replace
the current cards.  There'll be a 4*8 card (i.e., 4 bits upgradeable
to 8), a 8*24 card (8 bits upgradeable to 24), and a 8*24 CG (8 bits
upgradeable to 24, with AMD 29000 QuickDraw accelerator).

According to the story, all three new cards will drive all of the
Apple displays.  I suppose this means you could do 24-bit grayscale on
the big Apple two-page display.  I wonder how long it will be until
Apple comes out with a Apple-labeled 19-inch color Trinitron
display...

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Mark Vita                              vita@crd.ge.com
General Electric CRD               	..!uunet!crd.ge.com!vita
Schenectady, NY