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From: ross@ulowell.UUCP
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Subject: Re: caveat emptor
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Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 16:48:47 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 23 16:48:47 1987
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Reply-To: ross@swan.cs.ulowell.edu (Ross Miller)
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Hmmm,
	Well, another thing that people seem to forget is that Pixar is
not a big faceless corperation.  They come from Lucas Film.  Remember
Star Wars, not your average faceless, lets churn another film out, 
big studio film.  The reason that Pixar exists is that Lucas Film felt
that using Crays for movie animation was not the way to go.  Mostly
for cost reasons.  
	The above facts were from a presentation by Lucas Film a year
or two ago at the Boston Computer Museum.  Mabey it was two years.  
Andre and Wally Bee was shown also.  It was hazy at the time what
was Lucas Film and what was Pixar.
	A great comment the speaker made was that they had coded in
assembly to avoid using FORTRAN.  All of their graphics work was done
in C otherwise.  Whether this attitude was carried over to Pixar I
know not, but because of the hazy lines of where and what Pixar was
I would "assume" that some of it was.
	I have an intense dislike of F77, and that dislike is based
on an informed opinion.  Any group that avoids F77 is a good group
in my book.
	
							Ross


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