Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!uunet!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: COMDEX Announcements Message-ID: <5362@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 07:06:22 GMT References: <13541@oberon.USC.EDU> <7718@well.UUCP> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 26 In article <7718@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >In article <13541@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >: [ a bunch of CBM announcements at COMDEX ] >:TITLE: Amiga(r) High Resolution Color Graphics Card >: [ ... ] >:* Programmable resolutions up to 1024x1024 pixels. >: > I sense some hidden information here, such as, "Yeah, you can get 1K >x 1K, but only in monochrome." Which isn't to say that's bad... It was running at COMDEX in 1024x800, 256 out of 16 Million colors. >:* A Texas Instruments(tm) TMS34010 high speed graphics system processor >: executing graphics commands at up to 6 million instructions per >: second. >: > Is this good? The PC parket is jumping all over it, and therefore I >can't help but feel there's something wrong with it... The '010 isn't too bad, though it's got little-indian brain damage. :-) The '020 (which doesn't exist, and will be expensive when it does) is much more sane and nice. -- You've heard of CATS? Well, I'm a member of DOGS: Developers Of Great Software. Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup