CompuServe Messages

Well, for on-screen resolution the IBMers certainly are up with the Amigas [actually better, since they get their 480 vertical res with no interlace flicker 🙂 ] And most all 'serious' IBMers doing any sort of graphing have VGA, which is at least 640x480x16 colors…. so on-screen performance is ok on IBMs (IMHO)…. if you mean outputting to the limits of the display device (which I think you mean), then you are right on. No reason a program should not be able to give you a 'pretty darn good' graph on screen, and a GREAT one on paper. As far as I'm concerned, you should be able to design both at the same time (since you may well want both available), but specifying which elements to print on the screen/paper. (ie. you might want more detail on the printed graph, which you should be able to ignore when designing the screen graphic.) So, the problem is in 'device-independent' output (is that the right term?). And I don't know that the amiga has any great leap over other platforms there; the Mac and IBM certainly have drawing/graphic/DTP programs that are good at allowing 'to the resolution of the display device' output….