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From: raz@kilowatt.uucp (Raz- Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Cover Girl
Message-ID: <33877@kilowatt.uucp>
Date: 9 Jul 89 06:17:27 GMT
References: <20218@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: raz@sun.UUCP (Steve -Raz- Berry)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <20218@cup.portal.com> Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes:

>    The cover of this month's MicroCAD news was created on an Amiga! (The
>July 1989 issue)  The 13000 triangles were rendered, however on an AT&T.
>With the new video card (which I haven't seen yet), are we soon going to
>be able to render these wonderful images on our Amigas without having to
>go on vacation?  (By the way, that was an AT&T pixel machine--I assume
>this is in a significantly higher price bracket than the Amiga.)
>                                                 LadyHawke 

 The new video card (which no one has seen yet) probably won't help with
rendering anything. The A2630 would probably help a lot more ;-) The video
card would more than likely enhance the resolution and color palette rather
than the processing power of Ami.

 The AT&T pixel machine, would ray-trace an very complicated scene in
*seconds*. Of course you would expect that with about 64,000
processors working in parallel to complete it.  Try to get it to do
somthing simple though (like blit a window around) and watch it fall
on it's face.

 For my wish list, I'd like the new GVP 25mhz 030 card with plenty of 32
bit ram (oh I'd say about 6-8meg) and a fat hardrive, and perhaps a real 
nice monitor to display it on. You'd have to pry my cold dead fingers off
of the keyboard if I had one of these.
-- 
Steve -Raz- Berry      Disclaimer: I didn't do nutin!
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