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- In article <wturber.159.01AF22B6@primenet.com>, wturber@primenet.com
- (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) writes:
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- |>From: wturber@primenet.com (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
- |>Newsgroups: comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
- |>Subject: Re: If Amiga dies forever..
- |>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 08:14:33 LOCAL
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- |>David M. Ingebretsen wrote,
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- |>>Me?, I'm waiting for the prices on Alpha's to drop a wee bit more.
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- ||> Walter Turberville responds,
- |>Why? So you can run Windows NT which you could run just as easily
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- |>easier) on an Intel based PC? It seems to me that an Alpha is a PC on
- |>|>steroids with compatibility problems. The speed is very attractive,
- |>but not
- |>much else.
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- |> WL> I agree with Dave. If I am forced to leave the Amiga to run future
- WL> versions of LW I'll try to finance an Alpha box. It is useless to move
- WL> to a 486 because the speed increase is not worth it. A Pentium
- WL> is costly and for a little more you get many times the rendering
- WL> capability. For roughly $500.00 I can aquire a EMPLANT and that
- WL> will give me the ability to run PhotoShop on the Amiga, and soon
- WL> hopefully dos programs. I agree there is a ton of software available for
- WL> the PC but if it isn't what I want then it may as well not exist.
- WL> I WANT TO RUN LW ! I saw a demo of Two Alphas tied to an Amiga 4000
- WL> at the "System Eyes" Lightwave Users Group and it was impressive to
- WL> to say the least. The Alphas were a 166mhz, and 275mhz (I think)
- WL> running NT and ScreamerNet. Mark Thompson set up some intensive
- WL> rendering scenes, and we saw results during the course of the meeting.
- WL> Not real time but still pretty quick. As it lives today windows is a
- WL> cludge. Maybe (Hopefully) Win95 or whatever it ends up being called will
- WL> change my mind about windows, but I will still look to the Alpha.
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