Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Amiga networking (was Re: Letter to Commodore) Message-ID: <13306@uwm.edu> Date: 22 Jun 91 15:28:13 GMT Article-I.D.: uwm.13306 References: Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 21 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article , by billc@cryo.rain.com (William J. Coldwell): > We haven't link 9 together, but we have linked 4 with 040 equipped 3000s. > Take a look at some of the renderings that will be on display at AmiExpo > in DisneyWorld next month ;-). It is possible for us to hook 32 together > since AppleTalk Rev1 supports up to 32 nodes per zone. If we use a bridge, > it could be more, but since the Ray Tracer sends scan lines, it would only > be useful up to 32000 nodes (since that's the limit of 3dpro2 and the RT > module) ;-). Holy christ. Uhh, if you don't mind me asking, how fast was a raytrace on 1 040 amiga, and then how fast on the 4 040 amigas? Do you think it would be possible to get near-realtime raytraces??? (Just a passing VR thought...) Greg -- Socrates: "I drank WHAT????" LMFAP: "Next time you see me, it won't be me." Wubba: "A dream is nothing more than a wish dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with a little imagination." (From my poem, "A Dream") -Wubba