Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Large animations Message-ID: <4523@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 10 Nov 89 13:28:32 GMT References: <1989Oct25.050049.831@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <127317@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <13150@s.ms.uky.edu> <652@milton.acs.washington.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 17 [animations running from hard drives] In article <652@milton.acs.washington.edu> zeno@milton.acs.washington.edu (Sean Lamont) writes: > Yeah. > What's the point? Hard rives are a LOT cheaper and a LOT larger than big-ram systems. [fancy 11-meg animation deleted] Which could have been run off the hard drive, and that way you could do a 110 Meg animation just as easily. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' "IT'S THE TWO GODDAMNED CULTURES AGAIN !*! Bit-brained nerdery on one 'U` side, effete fin-de-siecle malaise on the other. And kingdoms of hybrid delight abandoned in the middle." -- burns@latcs1.oz (Jonathan Burns)