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- From: "Robert S. Iacullo" <eagle@serv.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker Case: two choices.
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 09:36:32 -0700
- Organization: A.C.C.O.
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- John Millington wrote:
- >
- > Anders Karlsson (flex@kuai.se) wrote:
- > : In a message of 05 Apr 96 Touliatos Panagiotis wrote to :
- > : TP> yeahh in 4-8 colors run very smooth, how
- > : TP> about 256 colors? ,even an old Cirrus Logic 5422 card runs windows and
- > : TP> os/2 at 800x600x256 faster than any 4000 at 640x512x256 .We need a real
- > : TP> upgrade ,the walker doesn't offer this yet, maybe if they put in it a
- > : TP> 24-bit graphics card and a better proceccor ??? who knows?
- >
- > : Face it! The Walker is LOW-END. You won't get a low end machine with
- > : gfx-card and 060/PPC-processor.
- >
- > They could get some generic SVGA hardware that can do hires and 24-bit
- > color and blit ten times faster than AGA, and it would probably cost about
- > the same or maybe even LESS than AGA. The perceived need for backwards
- > compatability is destroying Amiga hardware technology.
- >
- > Long live CyberGraphX!
- >
- > Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
- > John Millington
-
- A stripped down version of the high end machine would be good, too.
- Many people will want to pull drives and memory, etc. from their current
- machines to use on their Power Amiga. I have one SCSI II 1G and one 1G
- E-IDE drive ready to go in it, as one example.
- --
- Robert S Iacullo
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