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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 04:36:04 GMT
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- >Rask Ingemann Lambertsen had the following to say about Re: Why are europeans
- >dumb enough to buy amigas? ..
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- >>> Okay post some application benchmarks.
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- RIL>> I remember this one from a german computer exhibition:
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- RIL>> Scene rendering in LightWave 4:
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- RIL>> Amiga (060@50 Mhz) 0:55
- RIL>> PC (Pentium@90 Mhz) 1:20
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- >nice figures .. 25s more on a pentium :) but ! what machines where they ..
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- >if the amiga was an a4ooo with 18 mb ram: a cybergfx and cyberstorm and
- >the pentium were a 18 mb machine with pci gfx card ..
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- >what system would be CHEAPER to render on . the pentium or the Amiga ??
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- Depends, if you count software in the price, the Amiga is way ahead (3D
- studio on the PC can be up to 2000UKP, Lightwave 4 is 700UKP). If you just
- go by hardware, the Pentium.
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- RIL>> LightWave is one.
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- >there must have been a reasone why Toy Story was renedered on sun`s and not
- >on a PC or an AMIGA :-)
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- Yep:
- a) Suns are _very_ fast
- b) Disney can afford anything.
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- There must be a reason why Babylon 5 and The X Files are done on the Amiga.
- a) They have great rendering software
- b) They are pretty cheap.
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- Finn Higgins
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