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- From: snm6394@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.N. Mozumder )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Multiprocessing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.234916.6311@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 23:49:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov7.211453.21687@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <boing.721262416@mcl>
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- In article <boing.721262416@mcl> boing@mcl.ucsb.edu (Geff Hanoian) writes:
- >In <1992Nov7.211453.21687@ultb.isc.rit.edu> snm6394@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.N. Mozumder ) writes:
- >
- >>To folks at CBM:
- >
- >>Are there any plans for a multiprocessing or RISC based Amiga? My last
- >>rendering took 25 hours on Lightwave 3-D on a 030/882-25 MHz Amiga for
- >
- > [ ray tracing stuff cut out]
- >
- >>multiprocessing? Radius has such boards for 68040 multiprocessing on
- >>Macintoshes. Already maximum performance on the macintosh has exceeded
- >>the Amigas in ray tracing with the Radius boards. Help us videographers
- >>out here. 25 hours is a whole day of not doing work on the computer.
- >
- > But see ... on an AMIGA it's not a whole day without doing
- > work on the computer. We can multitask unlike the MAC.
- But the Toaster Doesn't multitask while rendering in Lightwave 3-D.
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- Bobby Mozumder
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