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- From: pjotr@ludd.luth.se (Peter Sj|str|m)
- Newsgroups: rec.video.production
- Subject: Re: Vivid-24 (was Re: Supermac's DigitalFilm... )
- Keywords: EditMaster...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.233609.13397@ludd.luth.se>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 23:36:09 GMT
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- In <1hnksmINNqac@gap.caltech.edu> andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew) writes:
-
- > It can't. Vivid is one of the biggest hype jobs in the Amiga
-
- Naaah... :)
-
- >other than being dog-slow. It's basically a TMS34020 with a
- >couple of its math coprocessors (up to four) on one PC-AT expansion
- >board and some VRAM and SRAM.
-
- 8MB VRAM and 16MB DRAM I think. But the bus is Zorro-III, which
- outperforms EISA and Microchannel. Also it has a local bus to the Digital
- Editmaster card (30 fps 700*550 24bit framegrabbing to HD).
-
- >or Inventor to work with. Or for that matter, any released
- >software.
-
- The Amiga graphics card market awaits RTG in the OS. This is a
- year away or more (guessing). Until then, prices are high and support scarse.
- I can include a rumour here that Real 3D v2.0 (hot!) is being written
- to run on the Vivid-24.
-
- > I apologize for the somewhat gratuitous bashing of Vivid,
- >but it's getting pretty old to see "SGI performance for under
- >$6K" especially when it stems from information given out by DMI
- >(the people who make Vivid-24) that seems to be maliciously
- >misleading.
-
- Agreed, but the Vivid-24 is still a very good product. (base model is
- under 2000 USD, no fp processors)
-
- /Peter
-
- ps. It has more performance per dollar? :)
-