Amix was Re: Aztec C (was: more eBay stuff)

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Fri Jun 1 15:27:12 CDT 2007


At 02:43 PM 6/1/2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>In fact, the EGA and PGA both predate the Amiga in the marketplace by a 
>full year.  You might as well criticize the Amiga for not having an 
>integral scanner.

Or another way of putting it, the PGA was introduced in '84 for 
the low price of $4290, the Amiga came out in '85 for $1300, 
and PGA went dodo in '87 when VGA arrived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Graphics_Controller

If you could get an extra mortgage, you could've bought an SGI, too.

- John



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