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From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1024X800 Monitor
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Date: 9 Aug 88 20:58:52 GMT
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In article <7200056@m.cs.uiuc.edu> hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP writes:
>Written  9:31 am  Aug  3, 1988 by joe@dayton.UUCP in comp.sys.amiga:
>>deleted...
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>The 2024 is actually a GREY-SCALE monitor.  >1 bitplane gives you shades of
>grey.  Using multiple colors (ie, greyscale) to make up an image, you could
>then have ANTIALIASED FONTS.  With software to take advantage of this, the 
>Amiga might turn into the envy of the desktop publishing world!
...
>Who was it at the AmiExpo AWG session who suggested a group to work on color
>fonts and graphics issues?  In addition to color fonts for video, I'd say
>the potential impact of the 2024 in desktop publishing makes this an
>important area for further work.

The new color font standard *may* buy you this capability already...
Still, there will be an AWG on graphics issues - lots of people are
interested in various graphics issues (extended resolution/color etc).

>Lionel Hummel					404 W. High St., #6
>hummel@cs.uiuc.edu				Urbana, IL  61801

Eric

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