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- From: crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com (Shane Kuntz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NewTek SHIPS Lightwave 4.0/Amiga!
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 15:39:54 GMT
- Organization: SDRC
- Sender: crkuntz@sgiis4 (Shane Kuntz)
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- In article <4ep774$qbl@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu>, aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor) writes:
- |>
- |> In a previous article, jamesm@turtle.apana.org.au (James McArthur) says:
- |>
- |> >What being compared is reality; an Amiga rendering something is a waste of
- |> >time, since a cheap, kludged up system like a PC can do it much faster.
- |>
- |> The Amiga is essentially dead in rendering circles. They're just too
- |> slow and too expensive to compete even a little bit. Nobody serious
- |> about rendering is doing it on an Amiga these days, except for a few
- |> hobbyists who haven't woken up yet.
- |>
- |> All the shows like B5, SQ etc moved off of Amigas a LONG time ago.
- |> That, coupled with the demise of Amiga LW, and the total lack of
- |> Amiga OpenGL hardware, well, lets just say the writing is on the wall
- |> here.
- |>
- Demise of Amiga LW? So I guess 4.0 isn't really out? :)
-
- The writing is on the wall alright. It tells me John doesn't
- have many facts.
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- Shane
-
- |> John
- |>
- |>
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