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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 13:21:05 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Wooly Mittens (0201367@ptfe12.hro.nl) wrote:
- : Nicholas Stallard wrote:
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- : >
- : > NJH>: there must have been a reasone why Toy Story was renedered on sun`s and
- : > NJH>: not on a PC or an AMIGA :-)
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- : and remember they didn't start on toystory yesterday, they needed the technology
- : almost five years ago, no amiga or pc could have delivered back then.
- : I mean Babylon5's tv resolution is something but raytracing filmprint quality
- : resolutions would take the rest of your life even on today's Pentium Pro 200's
- : Wooly Mittens.
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- Pentium pro, pentium, x86 in genral are bad at doing floating point
- operation. Pixar software would run much better on a 'simple' risc
- like the R5000 (I think rate at 800mflop) then a PPro.
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- Stephan
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