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From: cdouty@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Christopher Douty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Large animations
Summary: Get real, dude!
Message-ID: <2923@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 10 Nov 89 22:23:18 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: cdouty@jarthur.UUCP (Christopher Douty)
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In article <652@milton.acs.washington.edu> zeno@milton.acs.washington.edu (Sean Lamont) writes:
>>There are quite a few more machines with hard disks than with 8
	[stuff about disk anim deleted]
>Yeah.
>What's the point?
	[BS about nifty anim deleted]
>But...The point is He was running 11 megabytes internal chip-addressable ram.  
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>For large animations, I think THIS should be the trend and not the obvious
>tending toward hard-drive dependancy.

>|      Sean T. Lamont          |                                         |


What's the point?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

I'll tell you what the point is.  The point is that this guy was running
some very bizarre and EXPENSIVE hardware.  Let's look at this reasonablly.

A large hard drive, like say a 100 meg SCSI Quantum and a GVP hard card cost
about $1200, while RAM is going for much more.  Say a Microbotics 8UP with 8
megs RAM is $1795.  This is not your mythical 11 meg 32-bit
Super-non-standard-won't-autoconfig-worth-sh*t RAM board but you get the
picture.  This 11 meg animation required around $3300 worth of RAM chips,
plus a 68020 accelerator plus a hard drive to store the animation on to
begin with!

So why not exploit the fact that this ridiculously large animation is
sitting on your hard drive somewhere and play directly from the bloody HD!?
There are a whole lot more people with 11 megs free on their hard drive than
there are people who have "11 megabytes internal chip-addressable ram."  In
fact there is no one with that much "Chip-addressable" RAM unless people
have been busy etching their own Uber-Agnus-on-Steroids and building their
own Amiga 3*10^9 motherboards.  This guy was either pulling your chain or
having a VERY good time with some nifty chemicals. #8^)

Down to the point:  It would be silly to require ultra expensive,
non-standard hardware to view large animations when thanks to some ingenious
programming it can be done much more inexpensively on standard hardware.
Isn't the whole point of distributing animations allowing the maximum number
of people the enjoyment of viewing them?

				Christov
			 cdouty@jarthur.claremont.edu

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