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- From: fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris)
- Subject: Re: What's happening?
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- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 13:12:22 GMT
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- In article <4h3du3$764@madeline.ins.cwru.edu>,
- aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris) says:
- >>
- >>Which article are you talking about? The one I saw mentioned Amigas
- >>and even showed a photo of the guys next to an Amiga with (what I
- >>assume was) the Raptor box next to it!!
- >
- >No, it was rendered exclusively on Raptors using Windows NT
- >and Lightwave. There was an article about it in Amiga Computing.
- >Also, someone who worked on it posted in the Lightwave group
- >a while ago. He said they used Raptors for rendering.
-
- I think you are getting confused here. A while back someone wrote
- that they used Amigas connected to a Raptor. Then someone followed-up
- by saying the Raptor was running WinNT, and that Amigas were not
- actually memtioned (and therefore not used). Then I followed-up
- saying that I remember seeing a photo of an Amiga next to the Raptor,
- and thus Amiga's were used, even if the Raptor ran WinNT.
-
- The dispute was over whether Amigas were used at all, not what OS
- the Raptor was running.
-
- >Amigas are so staggeringly slow that essentially all professional
- >work has moved to Windows NT systems such as DEC Alpha boxes, which
- >can be as much as 200X the rendering speed of an 060.
-
- True. (200X is a bit excessive. It's probably a theoretical speed up
- assuming all things are equal - which they are not. But I get your
- point :-> )
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