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- From: johnc@mt-inc.com (John Crookshank)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NewTek SHIPS Lightwave 4.0/Amiga!
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 16:38:42 GMT
- Organization: MCSNet Internet Services
- Message-ID: <1386.6596T561T1495@mt-inc.com>
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- On 23-Jan-96 08:03:43, Richard Lees (rlees@ix.netcom.com) posted:
-
- > In <oj64tto6una.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com> koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve
- > Koren) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>sg928ah5@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (James Ianni) wrote:
- >>
- >>> : Lightwave on Raptor 3 WinNT workstations could render in 4 and 1/2
- > days
- >>> : what it would take an A4000/040 a full year (24 hrs a day) to do.
- >>
- >>> That doesn't sound correct...
- >>
- >>Sounds about right to me. That's a tad over 80X a 68040/25, which
- > isn't
- >>much of a stretch at all these days.
- >>
- >> - steve
-
- > Yeah, agreed, but um, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't a Raptor 3 WinNT
- > workstation multiprocessor?
-
- > That could have something to do with it. ;)
-
- No, the Raptor3 is a single-processor model. And Yes, it's THAT fast.
- The top of the line Raptor3 is 1200 MIPs, or 1.2 BIPs.
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