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Article #1281Re: Suns, support, less money
From: David Phillip Oster
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1987 20:19
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1987 20:19
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The MacII video board is an option. You don't have to buy one from apple.
Apple's is available with 4bits per pixel or, by adding more memory, 8bits
per pixel. In either case, these bits indirect through a color table.
The operating system supports multiple display cards with different parameters
you can have a window half on a black and white display, half on a color
display. drag it, and it does the right thing. There is operating system
support for multiple task arbitration of the hardware color table.
There is a socket on the motherboard for the Motorola MMU chip.
I find the MacII to be a great Macintosh, and I expect it will be an okay
Unix workstation. Sun makes great workstations, but they are lousy
Macintoshes (no Mac software will run on them :-). I've found I get a
lot more done on a Macintosh than on a Unix workstation.
--- David Phillip Oster --My Good News: "I'm a perfectionist."
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --My Bad News: "I don't charge by the hour."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!rutgers!labrea!jade!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!oster From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Suns, support, less money Message-ID: <20835@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 16:19:13 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.20835 Posted: Fri Sep 18 16:19:13 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 04:40:24 EDT References: <7177@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <3894@well.UUCP> <668@uokmax.UUCP> <719@sugar.UUCP> <1433@ssc-vax.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley Lines: 19 Keywords: Workstations