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- From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: TECH: Amiga VR?
- Message-ID: <724007331snx@cryton.demon.co.uk>
- Date: 10 Dec 92 17:08:51 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cryton.724007331snx
- References: <10DEC199201131290@trentu.ca>
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- In article <10DEC199201131290@trentu.ca> tsullivan@trentu.ca writes:
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- > For $5000 you can get a 486-33 with an i860 math coprocessor which will
- >give you as much computing power as your average Cray. That would be more
- >than enough for any home-VR app you could think of. You culd probably rig
- >it up with a 24-bit graphics card and you'd be set, making the Amiga with a
- >video-toaster look like a toy (no flames, please! This isn't in the realm
- >of PC/Amiga war, rather co-processor power!)
- >
- > Tim Sullivan
- > tsullivan@trentu.ca
- > cstes@blaze.trentu.ca
- >
- Erm, a single i860 is *no way* a cray-on-a-chip. Still orders of magnitude
- away.
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- Hugo
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