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On NeXTdimension and Renderman - Who does most the work?

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From: Garance A. Drosehn
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 17:32

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Release 3.0 comes with Renderman, which brings up the following question.

For those people who have the money to own a NeXTdimension board, what part  
of the system is doing most of the rendering work?  Is it the 68040 on the  
NeXTcube, or is it the i860 processor which is in the NeXTdimension board?

I'd suspect it's the 68040, but I'd like to think that Interactive Renderman  
would be able to take advantage of the features & speed of the i860.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA

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