Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!hector!eric From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 1024X800 Monitor Message-ID: <10500@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 9 Aug 88 20:58:52 GMT References: <1779@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> <7200056@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: netnews@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com Reply-To: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 27 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... > >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 ARPA: eric@topaz.rutgers.edu or eric@ulysses.att.com UUCP: {wherever!}ulysses!eric or {wherever!}rutgers!topaz!eric SNAIL: 34 Maplehurst Ln, Piscataway, NJ 08854 "To err is human; To really f*ck up requires the root password."