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- From: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 17:30:09 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
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- Nathanael J Henderson (nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu) wrote:
- : Nicholas Stallard (Snowy@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:
- :
- : : there must have been a reasone why Toy Story was renedered on sun`s and not on
- : : a PC or an AMIGA :-)
- :
- : Decent network-distributed reendering? The didn't use single Sun
- : workstations, they had a whole room of them (literally racks and racks of
- : the cpus) all hooked together.
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- They actually had that one room with some given air conditioning, and checked
- out how to get the most Rendermarks into that room, given its restraints.
- They also looked at a bang/buck figure. The Suns simply came out on top
- because of their nice, flat cases, which meant you could have quite a number
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- of them in limited space :-)
-
- Bernie
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