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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (Mac & Amiga displays)
Summary: If you think  t h a t ' s  bad ...
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Date: 13 Aug 89 05:23:46 GMT
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In article <16246@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Vince Lee) writes:
>...  The Mac's 9-inch screen is LESS FUNCTIONAL
>than the Amiga's, but it LOOKS BETTER because of the dot pitch.  ...

	Definitely.  The Mac display on my A-Max Mac-u-lator looks
pretty horrid on my Max-15 hi-res monochrome multisynch monitor with
long persistence phosphor (try typing  t h a t  ten times fast).  It
already shows how archaic the Mac Plus/SE 1-bitplane display is.  The
Amiga's 640 x 400 display gives a comfortably larger desktop then the
Mac's pitiful 512 x 342.  Note that the Amiga's interlaced rendition
of the Mac's display flickers even on my LP-phosphor Max-15 while my true
Amiga display seems rock solid to me (your flicker-mileage may vary).
The Mac display on my 1080 would make even Genghis Kahn puke. :-)

	Apple would be doing themselves a big favor if they gave up the
profit margin on the puny Plus/SE CRTs and used at least a Lisa sized
(10 inch 600-or-so x 342?) screen.  Instead, they offer the rest of us the
puny 1-bitplaned SE/30 with no slots or the $,$$$$ Mac II/c/x/i.

	Normally I wouldn't toast the Mac like this -- hell, if anything I
tend to defend it in comp.sys.amiga from various forms of misinformation --
but the A-Max makes the Mac's display deficiency so censored  o b v i o u s.
If nothing else, I think this should show that Amiga's flicker problems
shouldn't be judged too briefly.  It also show how unremarkable the Mac
Plus/SE hardware is (currently) -- it's what is in them ROMs that counts.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

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