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From: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Digital Animation Production
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Date: 20 Nov 89 00:10:55 GMT
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In article <42803@bu-cs.bu.edu>, bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:
>Hang onto your hats...

Whoops...there it goes! :-)

> [lots of stuff about D.A.P. and their graphics/transputer boards that makes
>  heads spin, mouths water, and ears ring...or mouths spin, ears water and
>  heads ring...whatever! :-)  16 million color 800x600 complex raytraces
>  requiring 46:23 hours:minutes on an '030 '882 Amiga done on a 5-transputer
>  system in 00:2:13 hours:minutes:seconds; drool, drool, gawk, drool..  :-) ]

Pleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease say that this is all true.  Tell me
that this guy is producing the board for the Amiga and that people have it
already and that products like Photon Paint are really being converted to
work with it.  Also tell me that it will be used by real people as a real
alternative to other more expensive systems.  In other words, all that info
sounds incredibly good.  Does Commodore have any intention of helping the
owner/designer of D.A.P. in getting the boards marketted and/or funded?

>  ...boards will run on PC and Amigas as well as some high-end workstations.
>  But the designer has no intention to build one for the Mac.  Apple has
>  offered to buy him out/in to develop the system for the Mac only.  They
>  offered a cool million plus.  He said no.  Yippee!  [...]

Is this guy rich?  How'd he get the resources to develop and produce these
boards?  AND he refuses $1,000,000.00+ ? (I know it's Apple, but that is
still a lot of $$CASH$$.  If he refused that offer, he's got something!)

>       And that's all, folks.  He's 19.  He's a political science major at
>  Boston University.  And he runs this company.  The address given in
>  AmigaWorld [December] is incorrect.  The real address is
>
>       10 Thacher St.  Suite 16
>       Boston, MA 02113
>       (617)-720-2355
>
>  I'm working on getting him access to the Usenet so he can personally answer
>  your questions.
>

He's 19??  *I'm* 19!  Jeesh!  And he's a poli.sci. major?  How'd he design the
boards?  How many people are in the company helping him?

If I could only see one of these...guaranteed response: "Oh, *WOW*!"

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