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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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Subject: Re: Rendering performance
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Date: 4 May 91 01:26:08 GMT
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In article <1991May3.224900.12807@dsd.es.com> rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) writes:
>>IBM's Risc System / 6000 model 730 can display 1 million Gourad Shaded
>>Polygons per second.
>I saw the 730 at SIGGRAPH and I don't remember them claiming this.

IBM doesn't claim this.  IBM does, however, claim an order of magnitude less.

>Where does this number come from?

Thin air?

Marc

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