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- From: ST102172@brownvm.brown.edu (Eric the Fruitbat)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
- Subject: Re: Macintosh VR
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:39:20 EST
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- >In article <84081@ut-emx.uucp> mustang@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul Christopher
-
- [Lengthy discussion of why PCs are better than Macs for VR deleted]
-
- >Of course it is a superior platform. Still doesn't even come close to
- >workstation level, though!
-
- [Lengthy discussion of why Amigas are better than the others deleted]
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- > For the price of an Amiga 4000 you can
- >buy a SUN SparcStation Classic with 16 MB RAM, 207 MB HDD, 3.5" HD, and 15"
- >1024 X 768 monitor.
-
- If you'll forgive a little geeking out, IMHO the biggest advantage to using
- graphic workstation technology a la Sun or IRIS is hardware framebuffer
- technology, an absolute *must* in dealing with graphics at the kind of level
- we're talking about. I've never seen nor heard of, for instance, an external
- FB for Macintosh, and the slowness of Intel's microprocessors relative to
- SPARC et al. makes IBMs a poor cousin in that department.
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