tmb@mit-prep.UUCP (03/09/87)
Yes, I was also very close to buying an Atari ST simply on account of its monochrome quality (I bought the Amiga mainly because it offered a multitasking operating system). I am very disappointed that the Amiga 2000 does not have a high-resolution monochrome mode. If Atari comes out with the enhanced ST with ~1kx700 pixels resolution, for me there is little question what machine I will get, money permitting. Worse yet, the availability of colours on the Amiga seems to prompt everybody to use them, even though often they are not needed: a word-processor, an illustration graphics program, the workbench, &c. don't need colour, and use of the extra bitplanes eats up memory and slows graphics operations and text output tremendously (the Amiga graphics kernel is apparently not very efficient anyhow, despite the blitter). Thomas.
spencer@eris.UUCP (03/11/87)
In article <49@mit-prep.ARPA> tmb@mit-prep.ARPA (Thomas M. Breuel) writes: >Yes, I was also very close to buying an Atari ST simply on account of >its monochrome quality... > >...the availability of colours on the Amiga seems to prompt everybody >to use them, even though often they are not needed: a word-processor, >an illustration graphics program, the workbench, &c. don't need colour, >and use of the extra bitplanes eats up memory and slows graphics >operations and text output tremendously (the Amiga graphics kernel >is apparently not very efficient anyhow, despite the blitter). > > Thomas. All I can say to that is, I hope this guy is very happy with his new Atari. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)284-4740 I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)283-5469 Now working for |||||||||||::::... . . BUD-LINX But in no way |||||||||||||||::::.. .. . Officially representing ||||||||||||:::::... .. ....ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e spencer@mica.berkeley.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-