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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.
> 
> 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.

We had the opportunity to test 3DKit, albeit for a short period, on a  
Dimension. We only got a chance to use 3View, not the prman stuff, but  
there was a noticeable speed difference (maybe 30%) between the 25MHz slab  
and the Dimension system. I don't have any real numbers to throw out,  
since this was a brief intro to our User Group.

Also, we were only using PR1.

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Adrian Smith
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