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From: jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: high-res text on Amiga
Message-ID: <4231@mordor.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 13:12:17 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 13:12:17 1985
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About a week ago I posted an inquiry about the suitability of the
Amiga for an application involving high-resolution text display.
I promised to summarize to the net, and I received a couple of
requests for my summary via mail.  I also received several
thoughtful replies.

Then disaster struck.  My finger slipped while I was cleaning out
my mailbox and I wiped out everything.  Since "/usr" is only
backed up weekly here (whose stupid idea was that? mine? oh)
all of the mail I received was lost.  Thus, I am unable to respond
individually to the people who sent me letters.

The overall consensus among the replies that I received was that
the Amiga with its standard color monitor is not very suitable
for high-res text.  Some success was achieved with high persistence
phosphor B&W monitors; however, I was hoping to avoid the need
for non-standard equipment.  The Atari ST and Macintosh were
suggested as alternatives.  (My application -- UW, a multiple-
window terminal emulator for 4.2BSD UNIX -- already runs on the
Macintosh.)

I'd like to thank everyone who sent me a letter collectively,
since I can't reply individually.
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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