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- From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
- Subject: Re: X-Pert Systems Domino Board
- Message-ID: <0=wn-2@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 06:27:31 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <1992Aug28.041746.15836@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au> <1992Aug28.151818.22693@ctr.columbia.edu> <root.02d3@rkamiga.UUCP>
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- In article <root.02d3@rkamiga.UUCP> root@rkamiga.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug28.151818.22693@ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >>davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>Next year, you just by an accelerated 24 bit board for $59.95 and plug it in
- >>>
- >>>Into an AT bus? No thanks...
- >
- >There are some things going on in PC/AT video that most people don't realize,
- >even when they see it.
- >
- >Go to a hospital and get a CAT scan, and then go look at the results. The
- >viewing equipment is usually a 386 or 486 PC with a $2000-4000 1280x1024
- >video card. These systems can show a realtime video of your skull as it
- >is rotated through 360 degrees. These videos can be made up of the info
- >from thousands of xrays that were taken by the CAT scan. It is not jerky
- >at all, and is as smooth as a movie. Since the PC is normally mounted in
- >a fairly anonymous cabinet, and the monitor is located on a console, it
- >isn't obvious that there's "Intel Inside".
- >
- >These boards are starting to drop in price. Some of these boards have 16 megs
- >of memory, but memory prices are dropping. And the price of processor chips
- >is dropping.
- >
- >A flight simulator running on one of these boards would be great.
- >
- >--
- >Rick Kelly Rick's Amiga Framingham, Mass.
- >
- > think!unixland!rmkhome!rkamiga!root
-
- Really, all you need is a JPEG decompression/compression chip
- from C-cube and a graphics board with a super fast
- graphics accelerator. You can do fast animations on any computer system
- with something like that. From an article I read from a few years back,
- C-cube claimed that their 33mhz JPEG chip could convert 15 million
- pixels per second, with the capability of processing 300 instructions
- at once. I think that CBM could essentially create such a board for
- the Amiga, but damn CBM is money hungry and us dreamers can
- never hope for something like that from a compnay with a strong business
- sense.
-
- Heck, the NeXT Color NeXTStations come with these chips
- and look what CBM has, a dinky TI34010 and Amiga UX at 1024x1024 in
- 8-bits. Everybody and their dog does this stuff on the PC.
-
- I have had many second thoughts about kepping my Amiga, but
- the PC's still have a way to go before (getting close)
- they can replace my Amiga.
-
- I'd ask all the Amiga users to follow the things going on
- with the Local BUS. It is suppost to do for the PC's what
- the 3000's bus does for the DMI Resolver and such.
-
- I am reaching a point of being neutral with all computer
- platforms and caring not about which I'm using.
- Given the tools, I'm sure I could make any of them shine,
- but it is cheaper to do it on the PC's, and easier to do it on the Amigas,
- and it is friendlier on the MACs.
-
- PC's are faster for some things, but very few programs are
- written to use the PC's graphics on a assembly level.
-
- I think the PC developers theory is "if every thing is getting faster and cheaper,
-
- we don't need to work extra hard to get more efficient code.
-
-