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From: gort@cup.portal.com (george d harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Can the Mac actually do animation?
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Date: 4 Apr 91 13:08:09 GMT
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>This is true,  but the hardware is thre for getting impressive performance
>out of the machine i fonly the utilities had been a little better thought
>out.  For the 10,000 bucks we spent on this Mac II fx we could have bought
>a couple of SGI Iris 3D's.  I guess I was expecting too much of Apple.
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>>Robert Dorsett
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>Ward Page
>Naval Ocean Systems Center
>>(formerly General Dynamics Flight Simulation Lab)

$5000 for a sgi 3d!? I thought they started around $15000, with
monitor and frame buffer.