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  1. Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!newshub.ariel.yorku.ca!cs902125
  3. From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
  4. Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep8.015950.7296@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
  6. Sender: news@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
  8. References: <1992Sep4.151113.3583@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Sep6.145949.7467@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Sep7.183146.10658@waikato.ac.nz>
  9. Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:59:50 GMT
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  12. In article <1992Sep7.183146.10658@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
  13. >
  14. >I, too, would like to know for sure. The Mac was built with a hardware-
  15. >independent graphics model from the ground up, whereas the Amiga seems
  16. >highly reliant on the peculiarities of a particular set of graphics chips.
  17. >*Can* you indeed plug a 24-bit display into an Amiga, and immediately run
  18. >all your existing applications on it in 24-bit mode, like you can on the Mac?
  19. >
  20.  
  21. Some, not all because AmigaDos doesn't support 24 bit directly. eg. DCTV
  22. is supported by most rendering and graphics programs, however, not
  23. application programs.
  24.