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From: kary@hplsdla.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
Message-ID: <3450001@hplsdla.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 22:47:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 22:47:57 1987
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>>In article <629@puff.WISC.EDU> upl@puff.WISC.EDU (Future Unix Gurus) writes:
>>
>> The other statement I found particularly objectionable was his statement that
>> "we now have the ray tracing time down to an hour. Considering professional
>> systems running on Crays...take 2or 3 minutes, our Amiga isn't doing
>> badly"...
>> ...Using my pocket calculator,
>> and figuring the 24fps of standard film, I get a 14400 hours of
>> continous calculation for a ten minute film, or about 2 YEARS of continous
>> calculation!!!!
>>
> / keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) / 10:41 am  Apr 13, 1987 /
> Lessee - a Cray costs (how the heck do _I_know what a Cray costs?) say 2
> megabucks. So I could buy (2e6/2e3)=1e3=1000 Amigas (does $2000 for an Amiga
> sound reasonable - especially if I'm buying a thousand of 'em?) So then the
> 14400 hours becomes 14.4 hours. Not bad, maybe?
> 
> keith (keep it in perspective) ericson

I'm sure it's fun to say things like this, but as long as we're keeping
things in perspective, where are you going to put those 1000 Amiga's?
How are you going to operate them?  Communicate between them?

Dan (Reality, what a concept) Kary