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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga coverage in Byte
Message-ID: <19502@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 00:08:04 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.024207.29305@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <9833@uwm.edu> <61774@masscomp.westford.ccur.com>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <61774@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
>In article <9833@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>>From article <1991Mar1.024207.29305@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, by stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton):
>>> - System requirements
>>>     Amiga 2000 or 2500 with 7 MB of memory, an Amiga 1080-series or
>>Does it really require 7 meg of memory?  ...

>5MB is enough to run the switcher, DVE, and the bare bones of Lightwave.
>To really use the Toaster however requires about 7MB. 

That's not really unique to the Toaster, at least as far as the rendering goes.
Most Amiga-based rendering programs eat memory.  The Starship Enterprise 
images that Bill Koester did for his animation could only be rendered on a
loaded system (the only one we had, back then, with 16MB of 32 bit memory, 
plus an additional 4MB 16 bit Fast memory).  That was under Sculpt-3D.  A ray
tracing program itself would typically use less memory than a renderer using
faster and more clever rendering mechanisms, like what you get with the
Toaster.

>%       `       '                Mark Thompson                          %

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