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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: "Walker" monitor?
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 18:40:42 -0800
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- >Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com) wrote:
- >: I suppose they'll naturally point to the M1438S monitor as the solution,
- >: but if the "Walker" will include a new 1MB Kickstart, surely there's enough
- >: room there to fit the VGA monitor driver?
- >: For those of us who run only system-compliant programs on our machines, a
- >: Kickstart 3.2 with this driver in ROM would eliminate the need for a multisy
- n
- >c
- >: monitor. I'd also love a way to boot without adding the NTSC or PAL monitor
- s
- >: to the monitor database.
- >
- >Easy -- The Walker will only come from the factory with the ability to
- >use 1950's and 1960's analog oscilliscope displays instead of monitors.
- >After all, monitors are very expensive, and oscilliscope tubes have a
- >virtually unlimited resolution. And hey, there are alot of them already
- >around, too.
-
- So the "J" in Bowie J Poag does really stand for 'jerk'!
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