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From: sokay@richard.mitre.org (Steve Okay)
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Subject: Re: 68040
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Date: 12 Sep 90 17:43:41 GMT
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>On 5 Sep 90 14:04:56 GMT, mt87692@tut.fi (Mikko Tsokkinen) writes:
> 
>>Excuse me but why do you have to have 68040 in your machine when most of
>>people are quite happy with 68000. Especially if you allready have A3000.
>>What to do you with more speed? Compared to price you pay for it (68040
>$800).
>>Just my $0.02.
> 
>It's painfully obvious that you've never done any sort of 3d rendering and
>animation with your 'adequate' 68000.  Can you imagine waiting 27 hours
>for your 68000 to render a SINGLE HAM IMAGE?  I can and did, it's sucks.

I can!!!...I'm quite used to 27 hour(or longer) waits just to finish a
Hi-Res ANIM in Sculpt or a single HAM frame in Turbo Silver. This is 
mitigated somewhat by the fact that I'm not home for a good 15-18 hours 
of the day, so I'm only *REALLY* giving up Ami for a few hours in the
evening. And when I say give up, I mean it.  The machine is so bogged during
rendering that it takes 20 seconds or so just to get a response to an "info"
or "dir". And forget even running another task. There are so few cycles left
that once you've waited 5 minutes for the program to come up, it most likely
won't recognize any menu selections or operations. I had to house sit for a
few friends for a week a while back and my initial response to being sans
computer for 5 days was "Great!...this'll give me a chance to get a Full-Screen
version of the Fantek ANIM done!"(130-odd frames in Photo mode in Sculpt 4D). 

A 68000 is the quickest way to kill any interest you might have in doing decent
Ray Tracing or 3D Animation. I have been tempted to give up a number of times
out of frustration at waiting, but have still managed to hang in there.

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