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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
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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.

-- 
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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup