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From: mark@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Next machine as animation platform
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Date: 12 Nov 90 19:51:11 GMT
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	I recently got information in the mail about Steven Job's new
color Next Machine.  You buy his Next Cube with a 32bit graphics board
that evidently can grab video, compress it in real time and then play
back video in real time from these compressed files.  Lady on the phone
priced a bare system at $14K, without hard disk.  Seems to me that this
is the first workstation that you could use instead as a stand-alone 
animation computer.  Couldn't you just created rendered graphics, get 
it into compressed format and then dump, 20 seconds or so.  You wouldn't
need an Abekas or special single step video recorder.  Am I right? am
I wrong?



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Mark Jansen, Department of Computer and Information Science
The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277
mark@cis.ohio-state.edu