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Date: Sun 28-May-1989 07:21:03 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Where's the REVOLUTION In article <3804@mit-amt> lacsap@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes: >In article <89147.153425MDM107@PSUVM> MDM107@PSUVM.BITNET (Michael Mellinger) >wants in the next NeXT: >> graphics coprocessor >> 16 million colors simultaneously. Color printers > >I can't resist! So who has a display that can show 16 million colors >simultaneously? I mean here at the lab we have a 2048 by 2048 display >and certainly I would not want to look at 4 different million colors >at once! Much too confusing! The highest resolution color display I 16 million simultaneously displayable colors means it's a 24 bitplane device. These are pretty common these days. Serious graphics people usually find 24 or more planes esential. It is important for depth cueing and antialiasing. If you saw a nice image on a 24 plane box, you wouldn't be confused, I assure you. But 24 planes at 1k X 1k is 24M bits = 3M bytes. You'll need more hardware to support all this and actually get an image on the screen in an acceptable amount of time. You won't see this in a $2000 computer in the very near future. Something to think about regarding color displays is the cost of a good monitor - You could spend a LOT of money on a color monitor that would be nowhere near the crisp appearance of the B/W display (2 planes, BTW) on the NeXT. Most of the work I do is text oriented; B/W wins hands down here because of the sharpness of the monitors. George Seibel, UCSF >From: mic@ut-emx.UUCP (Mic (... K[a-z]+) Kaczmarczik)
Date: Sun 30-May-1989 21:11:21 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Where's the REVOLUTION In article <11899@well.UUCP> nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) writes: The revolution is over. NeXT blew it. It just isn't enough better to compete with the big players. It's very like the Amiga in that regard; technically neat, initially shipped with very flakey software, and lacking both serious applications and a dealer structure capable of supporting it. John Nagle Reminds me of something I learned from /usr/games/fortune a while back: "Positive is being mistaken at the top of your voice." >From: rfellman@ucsd.edu
Date: Sun 09-Jun-1989 22:48:28 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Where's the REVOLUTION In article <10831@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> carlos@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Carlos Salinas) writes: >While we're at it, why not have an optical drive which reads not only >optical disks but also CD roms and ordinary CDs (why not?). CD roms >should be faster than optical and would be ideal for large applications >and databases. The last time I checked (about 4 months ago), CD ROM drives had 400-500 millisecond access time. That's *SLOW*!!! It would be nice to be able to hook one on a NeXT, though, to get at some large databases.
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