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- From: perelet@avignon.wri.com (Oleg Perelet)
- Subject: Re: NeXTdimension -- what are the *official* specs?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.232251.17591@wri.com>
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- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
- References: <1992Jul22.205203.17283@cs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:22:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.205203.17283@cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart
- Ritchie) writes:
- > the interactive renderman engine, as implemented in the 3DKit,
- > does in fact use the i860 on the NeXTDimension board for
- > rendering computations. The implementor says that there is
- > perhaps an order of magnitude better performance with the i860
- > than the 040. I don't know what sort of benchmark was used to
- > make this comparison.
- Some Renderman code is present in ND driver,
- but it seems like it's desabled.
- Just type:
- strings /usr/lib/NextStep/Displays/NeXTdimension.psdrvr/NDserver | grep -i ri
- > Has anyone outside of NeXT seen a 3DKit demo on a NeXTdimension
- > system? All the demos that I have seen and heard of are done
- > using the slabs.
- >
- > Stuart
-
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- Oleg Perelet
- perelet@wri.com
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