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- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Subject: Re: NeXTdimension -- what are the *official* specs?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.224017.1108@metrosoft.com>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Organization: Metrosoft
- References: <1992Jul22.205203.17283@cs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:40:17 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Jul22.205203.17283@cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart
- Ritchie) writes:
- > Oleg Perelet writes:
- > >Eskandar Ensafi writes:
- > >> Hi,
- > >> 3) Has anyone tried running RenderMan on a NeXTdimension? Is it much
- faster?
- > >NOO!
- > >--
- > >Oleg Perelet
- > >perelet@wri.com
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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
-
- I have it running on an ND - it seems quite fast but unfortunately at this
- point I have nothing to compare it to. When Ron gets back in town we'll se
- how it performs on a color turbo...
-
- Gordon
-
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