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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Cover Girl
Message-ID: <7248@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 89 13:44:13 GMT
References: <20218@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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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.
$[...] (By the way, that was an AT&T pixel machine--I assume
$this is in a significantly higher price bracket than the Amiga.)

$140K the last time I checked.  STAGGERINGLY powerful box though.
820 MFlops.  Watching it render is amazing because the parallel
processors work on different areas of the the display SIMULTANEOUSLY,
and the picture appears somewhat like seeing behind a leaf being eaten
by a hundred caterpillars!

	Paul.