paul@imsvax.UUCP (Paul Knight) (05/03/87)
From my buddy Ted Holden:
An ad on page 122 of the new (May 87) issue of the PC tech journal should
suffice as a glimpse of the future of PC graphics. Based on the TI 34010
chip, this product offers 1024x768x4 resolution, dynamic zoom and pan,
and graphics writing speed beyond anything heretofore seen. The heart of
the board is the single TI chip; the thing should be cheap to produce,
should not generate intense heat as previous efforts at serious PC graphics
have. By this summer, there should be at least a dozen such products on
the market for $500 or less, and the price of serious graphics monitors
should tumble as more and more are produced.
The only losers I can see in any of this will be the unfortunate purchasers
of the new IBM machines, who will be stuck with 640x480 graphics until the
day of judgement.
Ted Holden
HT Enterprises
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Paul Knight
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Look for multiple signatures before you flame. Thanks.farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren) (05/04/87)
In article <709@imsvax.UUCP> paul@imsvax.UUCP (Paul Knight) writes: >The heart of >the board is the single TI chip; the thing should be cheap to produce, >have. By this summer, there should be at least a dozen such products on >the market for $500 or less, and the price of serious graphics monitors >should tumble as more and more are produced. I thought that the TI chip was expensive, like on the order of hundreds of dollars each. If this is so, it'll be hard for there to be "at least a dozen ... for $500 or less". Besides, don't forget to include the cost of a monitor in there, along with the driver software (can you say "non-standard"? I knew you could.) to run the thingie. I'd say more like $2K for a complete setup, at least. >The only losers I can see in any of this will be the unfortunate purchasers >of the new IBM machines, who will be stuck with 640x480 graphics until the >day of judgement. Funny, I didn't feel the rapture :-> If you look at the IBM announcements, you will notice that the hooks are already there for high-res graphics, and that IBM will be introducing product to support it, including a monitor and card set to allow for somthing close to 1K X 1K. (don't have the real figures on hand.) -- ---------------- "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness Mike Farren that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..." hoptoad!farren Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"