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  1. Path: valour.pem.cam.ac.uk!not-for-mail
  2. From: cbrown@armltd.co.uk (Chris Brown)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Haynie joins AT team
  5. Date: 27 Mar 1996 15:12:14 -0000
  6. Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Limited
  7. Message-ID: <4jblse$h6r@valour.pem.cam.ac.uk>
  8. References: <14FEF421@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <4itcta$lpa@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4iutet$cb2@astfgl.idb.hist.no> <neilo-2303961948150001@d59-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: valour.pem.cam.ac.uk
  10.  
  11. In article <neilo-2303961948150001@d59-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au>,
  12. Neil O'Rourke <neilo@m140.aone.net.au> wrote:
  13. >
  14. >Not quite correct ... the standard SVGA chipset can't pull tricks like
  15. >draggable screens, screens of different resoultions etc on the one monitor
  16. >and the like.  These nice feaures of the Amiga are a result of the
  17. >hardware.
  18.  
  19. You're misinformed. Firstly, there is no such thing as the "standard
  20. SVGA chipset", and secondly, it really isn't difficult to make them do
  21. the draggable screens (maybe not so efficiently) and different
  22. resoloutions simultaneously.
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25. /*  _  */main(int k,char**n){char*i=k&1?"+L*;99,RU[,RUo+BeKAA+BECACJ+CAACA"
  26. /* / ` */"CD+LBCACJ*":1[n],j,l=!k,m;do for(m=*i-48,j=l?m/k:m%k;m>>7?k=1<<m+
  27. /* |   */8,!l&&puts(&l)**&l:j--;printf("  \0_/"+l));while((l^=3)||l[++i]);}
  28. /* \_,hris Brown -- All opinions expressed are probably wrong. */
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