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From: thomas%spline.uucp@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 02:43:01 EDT
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In article <451@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:
>	Time to render a frame on a DEC VAX 11/780:
>		1-2 hours and 6-8 Mbytes

Ah, but this just is a "normalization".  It does not say that the
frames were actually rendered on a Vax.  If he said each frame took
"X" minutes of Cray time, nobody would know how long that was "really"
(well, I wouldn't, anyway).

=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@cs.utah.edu)