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Article #339Re: NeXTdimension -- what are the *official* specs?
From: Oleg Perelet
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:22
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:22
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In article <1992Jul22.205203.17283@cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) writes: > the interactive renderman engine, as implemented in the 3DKit, > does in fact use the i860 on the NeXTDimension board for > rendering computations. The implementor says that there is > perhaps an order of magnitude better performance with the i860 > than the 040. I don't know what sort of benchmark was used to > make this comparison. Some Renderman code is present in ND driver, but it seems like it's desabled. Just type: strings /usr/lib/NextStep/Displays/NeXTdimension.psdrvr/NDserver | grep -i ri > Has anyone outside of NeXT seen a 3DKit demo on a NeXTdimension > system? All the demos that I have seen and heard of are done > using the slabs. > > Stuart -- Oleg Perelet perelet@wri.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wri!news From: perelet@avignon.wri.com (Oleg Perelet) Subject: Re: NeXTdimension -- what are the *official* specs? Message-ID: <1992Jul22.232251.17591@wri.com> Sender: news@wri.com Nntp-Posting-Host: fixme.wri.com Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc. References: <1992Jul22.205203.17283@cs.ubc.ca> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:22:51 GMT Lines: 21