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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Digital Animation Production
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Date: 18 Nov 89 00:08:14 GMT
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In article <42803@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:
>Record companies will pay hefty sums to keep this product off the market. 

Record companies never pay to keep things off the market, they send letters
to powerful politicians to so completely confuse them that the politicians 
keep things off the market, but they never pay any money. 

Sounds like a whizzy box. Now if he would do the same with intel 860/960
combos not only would he have a whizzy box but an architecture that was
better supported by the manufacturer. Don't misunderstand, the transputer
is a whizzy product and it does neat things, but between the Inmos lies 
and the inability to price them reasonably it has never lived up to its
potential. You will remember that the reason it was called a TRANSputer
from the start and not a COMputer was because they were supposed to be
as cheap and plentiful as TRANSistors. 

Argh, verry little signal. Ok, how about a question. Has this person
looked at the Renderman spec? 


--Chuck McManis
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