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From: Gloger.es@XEROX.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: THE LAST STARFIGHTER (COMPUTER GRAPHICS)
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Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 05:36:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 17 05:36:00 1984
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The article quoted says film image production needs "raw computational
speed," and suggests that this means a Cray-class computer.  Could you
not get comparable or better total computational speed at lower cost by
running a roomful of microcomputers?  Or is a Cray really the cheapest
way to buy bulk floating point computation?