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From: K312240@AEARN.BITNET (Klaus Kusche)
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Subject: Pixar & transputers? RenderMan on Transputers?
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Date: 24 May 89 18:43:54 GMT
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Dear Mailing List:

Has anyone listening to this list any idea how active Pixar (the
company producing these wonderful computer graphics) is in the
transputer area???

Once there has been a single, small note on this list (must have been
years ago) that Pixar will use transputers for their special graphics
hardware, but I've never heard anything about it again. Is this project
that dead, that small or that secret???

Moreover, has anybody heard of (or even better: is anybody working
on) an implementation of Pixar's RenderMan rendering software on
transputers (in parallel of course!)?

The reason for all these questions: A local company (no name) has asked
us a few days ago if we are willing to cooperate with them on just that
problem...

Greetings

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