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- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- References: <1992Dec22.154905.1943@msus1.msus.edu> <1992Dec22.222921.29271@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0m0i@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 13:22:44 PST
- Organization: TAP
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- Quoted from <1992Dec22.222921.29271@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> by jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel):
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- > 8-bit images at once." I was flamed out of the thread. Now they're talking
- > about how *screens* alleviate palette-overlap problems.
-
- They don't "alleviate" these problems, they avoid them altogether.
- Magnificent!
-
- > It's funny how Amigoids love to assume that "Only Amiga Makes It Possible".
-
- It happens to be true.
-
- > I routinely run several command line sessions, a game, and the Windows
- > (or OS/2) desktop, each in its own screen on a PC with VGA.
-
- I thought you ran UNIX on your PC. You said something about that
- being the best way to get decent 32-bit performance.
-
- And are you now saying screens are a Good Thing? Why don't you run
- all these things on the same screen?
-
- > Actually, I'd be hard pressed to find a 640x200 4-color Windows screen to
- > compare with an Amiga.
-
- That's exactly right, and of course also applies to the other
- resolutions for Workbench supported on the recent Amigas.
-
- > | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
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