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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: A Study in Balance
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.131937.58894@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 13:19:36 MDT
- References: <1992Sep15.023838.16397@news.iastate.edu> <1992Sep15.151355.29326@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1992Sep15.175733.25962@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <1992Sep15.175733.25962@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep15.151355.29326@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
- >>Marc, seriously, what exactly do you want C= to do? what is your dream
- >>computer... just tell us.
- >
- > What I wanted from a next-generation Amiga, in short, was a new system
- > as well-balanced as the A1000, and which offered the same level of improvements
- > throughout the system. I wanted to see sound capabilities improved to 16-bits,
- > a new copper capable of handling all of the new palette registers with the
- > same ease that the copper in the ECS handles the palette registers in that
- > chipset, a new blitter that can blit data with the same fluidity in
- > 1280x400x8 that the old blitter did in 320x200x6, much greater chip RAM
- > addressing (preferably to 24-bit), improved resolutions on the same level
- > as the improvements in everything else, and the adoption of the floptical
- > drives to keep pace with the new storage needs from the improved video.
- >
- > I am dissatisfied with the A4000 primarily because it is not a well-balanced
- > system that offers balanced upgrades across the board. The improvements that
- > the A4000 offers are almost entirely in the area of color, with few
- > improvements in anything else.
- >
- > ---
- > | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- > --------------------------------------------------
- >
- >
- >
- >
- > [ Around three hundred lines of carriage returns deleted ]
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >
- >
- >
-
- Marc, what the hell is all those empty spaces for? Trying to "balance"
- your whining with white space?
-
- Another question:
-
- If the A4000 is so "unbalanced", what machine would you call "balanced"
- that offers a compairable feature set of the A4000 for under $3000
- steet-price?
-
-
- Greetings,
-
- Travis Carter
- slbfn@cc.usu.edu
-