Re: ZipGS or Second Sight????

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

Erik Kloeppel (erik@hypermall.com) wrote:
> Hmm...Well, overall I'll agree - the ZIP is more important up front than a
> Second Sight.  Ask anybody who has one (like me, even) but I do dispute Mr
> Sanchez contention that "5 (at most)" programs that will see improvement
> via the SS.  Unless he counts the finder and any desktop application as
> one.  In fact, the desktop is THE reason to get the SS - Graphics apps are
> ok, but IIGS owners tend to live on the desktop - and the difference
> between the IIGS desktop on the 640 X 200 rgb monitor and the IIGS desktop
> on a 1024 X 768 desktop are incredible.

Um, hang on there, bucko.  It's gonna be awhile before we see the desktop 
at 1024x768.  Even with the SS installed, it's still 640x200, until 
somebody re-writes QuickDraw, and that's just not gonna happen right 
away.  (Although it would be really cool if somebody made me eat my words.)
It will look nicer by means of scanline-doubling, but it's still 640x200.

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