sh2u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Scott T. Huang) (06/06/90)
I saw that Sigma L-View has begun shipping. Has anyone tried it out yet? Can you tell me how you feel about it? Is it worth the $2000? Better yet, anyone know the street price for it? Is it gray-scale or plain black and white?
dankg@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) (06/06/90)
In article <0aP0lom00WBMM1m5sA@andrew.cmu.edu> sh2u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Scott T. Huang) writes: >I saw that Sigma L-View has begun shipping. Has anyone tried it out yet? >Can you tell me how you feel about it? Is it worth the $2000? Better >yet, anyone know the street price for it? Is it gray-scale or plain >black and white? I was working for Sigma as a tester. Totally it was a great product. Hires-mode was so crisp that it made me feel meserable to work with my small SE screen. And it was fast, too. And it has excellent utilities working on Big screen. It needs nothing special for Mac II. It uses CDEV for SE, which I was testing. And The CDEV is great. The most amazing feature is that you can switch resolution runtime. It had a few conflicts with International System such as KanjiTalk, also I tested, But most problem was solved just by renaming the CDEV so it loads in before others--the CDEV changes QD coordinates and some INITs/CDEVs (KanjiTalk depends on CDEV et al.) will not renew it. So it still has some trouble runtime resolution switches but it's rather other application's problem that it doesn't constantly check QD coordinates. In total, it's a bargain value--it has one of the best resolutions in HiRes mode and it looks more reliable than Radius since it uses few parts. You won't be disapointed (I myself can't afford it, tho) Dan Kogai (dankg@ocf.berkeley.edu)
sh2u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Scott T. Huang) (06/07/90)
Thank you Dan for your helpful insight, but you still haven't told me if it is grayscale or not (if it is, how many shades of gray?)
dankg@volcano.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) (06/07/90)
In article <kaPPGku00WBKE1Wncr@andrew.cmu.edu> sh2u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Scott T. Huang) writes: >Thank you Dan for your helpful insight, but you still haven't told me if >it is grayscale or not (if it is, how many shades of gray?) Oops, I forgot to tell you. Unfortunately, as of this time the answer is no. I think display itself has a capability of showing grayscale but there's no glayscale card available yet. This also apply Sigma's other B&W products, PageView and SilverView. I hope they work for it in future. Dan Kogai (dankg@ocf.berkeley.edu)