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From: metahawk@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby)
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 10 Jun 91 20:51:01 GMT
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In article <44@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>Responding to the following:
>
>You don't know what you're talking about. Each monitor is controlled by its
>own video board and given its own portion of the bitmap only. Try not to
>relate Amiga problems with the Macintosh world.

Have you ever tried hooking up multiple 24 bit color displays on a Mac?
Here in our dorm, we hooked up 4 of the Apple 13" color monitors using
4 8.24 cards (Apple - 3 of them had GCs) to a Mac II.  Under 24 bit, the
displays were very slow (much slower than just one monitor w/o the GC
activated, which I consider below acceptible speed - don't ever get a
24 card w/o a GC, you'll fall asleep waiting for the screen to catch up,
well, it's not quite that bad, but...).  At 8 bit, though, the displays
weren't bad.

                                   Wayne Rigby
                                   Computer and Systems Engineer (in training)
                                   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
                                   metahawk@rpi.edu

