Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eneevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!ravi From: ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni) Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: "Valid" AMIGA info. Message-ID: <297@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 22:24:29 EDT Article-I.D.: eneevax.297 Posted: Sat Jun 29 22:24:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:10:57 EDT References: <1655@amdahl.UUCP>,<673@cadovax.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, EE Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 21 There were a few things in the "description" that I was a little disappointed with. One was the lack of a hard disk interface on the base machine. Unless I am mistaken you would have to buy the expansion box + controller + hard disk. The other concern is the small amount of memory (256k). I hope they have installed that "fantastic" do all operating system in rom or there won't be much room for application programs. From the description the amiga is definitely a more powerful machine than the atari ST. The real question however is how much more money they want for all those goodies. My guess is that they will be sufficiently far apart in price such that there will be only indirect competition. One technical question, how does the amiga get 320x200 and 640x400 on the same monitor? Do they use a dual resolution monitor or (boo) use interlaced video in the hi res mode. Also the numbers don't add up, 640x400x2 colors=32kbytes, and 320x200x 32 colors=40kbytes. ravi -- ARPA: eneevax!ravi@maryland UUCP: [seismo,allegra]!umcp-cs!eneevax!ravi