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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: AMIGA
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In article <1991May6.115535.8982@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>> As a parallel question, what is
>> the maximum frame-rate for animations where the frames are not in memory,
>> but being read from disk during the animation?
>
>60 FPS, again.
>
	I'm afraid your hard drive is a tad faster than mine. My
Quantum can read slightly greater than 1MB/sec I believe if it is
nice and contiguous, but if each frame is 32K then that makes
1920K/sec. However, 60fps is irrelevant. 30 and 24 are far more
meaningful. 

	-- Ethan

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