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In article <CKD.92Oct6205053@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
>DB> == Dariusz Bolski <derek@cgrg.ohio-state.edu> 
>
> DB> This is really interesting. First I hear from many people that Mac
> DB> is a viable platform even in b/w (color is available for the Mac
> DB> for not so long) and then I hear that this machine is not worth
> DB> anything.
>
>The Plus is an old 68000 machine.  It's not the monochrome that makes
>the difference, it's the age and the processor.  As an example of a
>newer, more powerful Mac in the same basic form factor, look at an SE/30
>or Classic II; faster processors, more room for RAM, internal hard
>drives (another thing the Plus lacked), more stuff in ROM so less of the
>System needs to be loaded into RAM, etc.
>
>Most of the machines I work with have grayscale monitors of various
>sizes.  My home machine has color, but my old SE worked just fine in
>1-bit (and my parents still use it in that very configuration).  My
>workstation has a one-bit screen, too (Sun4/25) and there's nothing
>wrong with it.
>
>The point is that talking about an emulator that only emulates the
>features of a Mac Plus is not very interesting relative to many of the
>new features *besides color* which have been developed since then, no
>matter how fast a Mac Plus it emulates.  Certainly comparing its raw
>speed to a IIci is hardly a useful comparison.

I just learned yesterday that an emulator emulating Mac IIx is out,
thus color is now available for the emulation too.  I am going to
check on how it emulates these other features you talk about too.

>Christopher K. Davis      |       NET.INSIGHTS INTO ARTISTIC CRITICISM:

Regards,

Dariusz Bolski

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Dariusz Bolski     Ohio Supercomputer Center, IBM POWER Visualization System
Systems Programmer Ohio State University , Columbus U.S.
                   The Advanced Computing Center For The Arts And Design
e-mail: derek@cgrg.ohio-state.edu  derek@osc.edu