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- From: Jeremiah.Blatz@dartmouth.edu (Jeremiah Blatz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: TECH: "Virtuality" --- Amiga 3000... Some observations and
- Questions.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.024717.2751@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 02:47:17 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.221712.23062@Veritas.COM>
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- In article <1992Aug25.221712.23062@Veritas.COM>
- geac@uunet.UU.NET writes:
-
- > I was told that the system was about $80,000. Now the 3000 is
- > about $5000-$10,000 depending on what's required. Is this type of
- > hardware normally that expensive (visor, joypad, etc...) ?
-
- Not really, the real cost is in those two nifty graphics processors.
- VIRTUALITY uses the Amiga like VPL uses the Mac. It handles
- input/databases etc., but the real graphics work is done by hugely
- powerful processors (VIRTUALITY) of a couple of SGI workstations (VPL).
-
- Sorry,
- Jeremiah
-