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Article #202Vaporware (Re: WARNING: Reading this will expose you to some RISC)
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1989 16:59
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1989 16:59
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In article <8910300802.AA05148@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: > 3-D, Full-Color Animation. > Electic Image is set to ship Spotlight, a 32-bit color 3-D > rendering and animation program, in January 1990. The > $7,495 program requires a Mac II family computer with a > minimum of 2 Mbytes of RAM and a large capacity hard disk or > optical storage system. Spotlight brings broadcast quality > 3-D animation to the Macintosh. - MacWeek 3 October This is of immense amusement to all us Amiga owners, who have been able to generate broadcast-quality 3-d animations for many moons now, with considerably less hardware and considerably cheaper software. But I'm sure the trade press will rave over this 'innovation'. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva <peter@ficc.uu.net> <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>. 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "That particular mistake will not be repeated. There are plenty of mistakes left that have not yet been used." -- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Vaporware (Re: WARNING: Reading this will expose you to some RISC) Message-ID: <6726@ficc.uu.net> Date: 30 Oct 89 16:59:26 GMT References: <8910300802.AA05148@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 19