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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
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Posted: Sat Jun 29 22:24:29 1985
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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
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