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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Idea for a graphics board
Keywords: 24 bit
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Date: 26 Jun 91 15:58:32 GMT
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jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson) writes:
>mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
>>confident that anything would come of it soon. I find this most unfortunate
>>since an i860 based board is what I most need right now. The i860 is by far
>>the most bang for the buck out there and I am deeply disappointed that no
>>one has managed to bring one to the Amiga market, especially now with the low
>>cost 25MHz version ($175 quantity 1000).
>
>We have an i860 based board for the AT bus called the Horizon860.  We have a
>port of Pixar's Photo-Realistic Renderman for it.  I have been trying to find 
>Amiga software which outputs RIB files.  This would allow renderings to be 
>dumped to the Horizon860 for processing and then brought back to the Amiga
>for display or displayed onto a TARGA+ or ATVista board on the PC side.  

Yes, I am familiar with it. It was my understanding however that it cost
around $9000. I know that i860 based designs are not cheap but I was hoping
to see something a bit less lofty in price, something around $4K would be
reasonable. I know of at least one company that is OEMing i860 based graphics
boards for around $2K (but that is on a VME bus).
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