Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!att!cbnewsd!rcj2 From: rcj2@cbnewsd.att.com (ray.c.jender) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Burn MACWorld... BURN! Message-ID: <1991Apr26.184426.14358@cbnewsd.att.com> Date: 26 Apr 91 18:44:26 GMT References: <2342@wet.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 29 In article bobl@graphics.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdm) writes: >pk@wet.UUCP (Philip King) writes: > >> Hey, I thought the Toaster would hardly even *RUN* in an unaccelerated >> Amiga?!? And I also heard you're fooling yourself if you try to run it >> in less than 6 megs of RAM. >> >> How the heck can they sell this thing as a useful tool, if it's that >> crippled? Any chance it's either accelerated or has lots'o ram? If not, >> it's a _real_ joke. > >Hmm..that is incorrect information. I've run the Toaster on my >UNaccelerated 5 meg Amiga 2000 and it runs like a champ. You don't >*need* an accelerator at all. One would be nice however. > >It doens't run slow and it is quite useful in the above setup without >any major hassles. > >> Philip >> pk@wet.uucp >> {cca.ucsf.edu,hoptoad,claris}!wet!pk > >-- Bob > Even though I don't own a toaster, I'd have to agree, but..... should'nt you qualify that with "unless your lightwaving it, and have the time....?" I thought anytime you do 3D, rendering, tracing,etc. that it's awfully slow without an accelerator.