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- From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: World of Commodore Toronto
- Message-ID: <d3-ds*su1@caleb.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 17:49:33 GMT
- References: <38136@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Organization: is sometimes desirable
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- In article <38136@cbmvax.commodore.com>, Spencer Shanson writes:
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- > In article <bn.01co@mndcrme.uoknor.edu> bn@mndcrme.uoknor.edu (Bo Najdrovsky) writes:
- > >3.0 has nothing to do with the general improvement of the OS. It's a
- >
- > Unfortunately, this is a popular misconception. True, the primary goal of 3.0
- > was to provide AA support in the OS, but many extra features are included in
- > 3.0, some as a result of the AA support. To list but a few:
- >
- > Palette sharing.
- > Double buffering.
- > Interleaved BitMaps.
- > Improved BootMenu.
- > Attached screens.
- > Memory pools.
- > Directory-caching File System.
- > Datatypes.
- >
- > I'm sorry if you don't consider these to be a 'general improvement of the OS'
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- So why isn't CBM making 3.0 available for A2000s? I've been told that it works
- on all Amigas.
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- Jim Pritchett
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