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- From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com>
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- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 22:36:01 -0700
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- The mortal Matt Harrell wrote:
- : That depends on just what the app is. Granted, when I render images
- : with POV-Ray on my 50MHz 030/882, it's not going to compare to a fast
- : 486 to 686 machine, but when I use applications like word processors
- : they compare quite well compared to the machines I use at work, which
- : have considerably faster processors.
-
- The irony being that the Amiga had carved a niche in the image
- processing/CGI biz, at least in america, NOT in apps like WPs and
- spreadsheets, so the only panacea for the north american market is CPU
- speed. Yes, the Amiga OS is more responsive than even a Pentium running
- Windows 3.1, but it isn't more productive when trying to accomplish
- dedicated CPU-heavy tasks.
-
- I have an 040/28 in my Amiga and even this machine, which is faster than
- a stock A4000 040 is still slow when rendering the sample scenes included
- with Lightwave 4.0. I had to reduce antialiasing to low and it still
- took about a week to render the Hummer scene. Those sample scenes
- represent an average scene for current single-cpu desktop setups with
- Lightwave and I am painfully aware that I am behind the times.
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