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1989 presentation by Jay Miner
« on: May 31, 2009, 09:38:05 PM »
I just stumbled across this today: Jay Miner, from 1989

Takes you all the way back, doesn't it?
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Re: 1989 presentation by Jay Miner
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2009, 10:55:25 PM »
Imagine how things might be if C= had actually listened to him?
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Re: 1989 presentation by Jay Miner
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2009, 11:21:04 PM »
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Man was a genius.

Commodore management sucked.


Good job the chip layout engineer pointed out the hole in the chip if they dropped HAM :)
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Re: 1989 presentation by Jay Miner
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2009, 09:58:34 PM »
Jay was awesome. I would have loved to have met the guy.
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Re: 1989 presentation by Jay Miner
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2009, 12:53:44 AM »
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So Jay wished he'd used chunky pixels and was looking forward to UNIX... I like the guy :)


I always rather liked the idea of hybrid pixels. Essentially a planar system where a plane can be more than 1 bit deep. A single "plane" of 8-bits would be equivalent to traditional 256-colour chunky pixels.
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