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From: josh@hi.uucp (Josh Siegel )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Amiga World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 02:07:56 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 19 02:07:56 1987
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Reply-To: josh@hi.UUCP (Josh Siegel)
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Keywords: cost

Actually... to continue this whole foolishness....

~$14,000,000 for a Cray XMP

at a $800 for a Amiga and a $800 for equipment to link them together...

thats 8750 amigas for the cost of a cray... Hmm... I'll put them
 in my dorm room... Hmm.. thats a larger pet then a goldfish...

Back to the point...

at 512x512 we have a quarter mill pixels.  That means that each
 amiga could do.. Hmm... roughly 32 pixels (actually, 29.959314 pixels).

I bet that we could do a VERY COMPLICATED image in FAR less time then
 a Cray... 

You say, but it is going to cost money to get all these things comunicating
(and paying the poor dumb f*cks who set it up...) but whats the overhead
with buying a Cray....

Again... Lets keep this in perspective.... WHO THE HELL WANTS
 8750 AMIGAS and HOW MANY STUDENTS CAN AFFORD A CRAY?

		--Josh Siegel

			
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