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Re: NeXTdimension -- what are the official specs?

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From: Gordon Van Huizen
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:40

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In article <1992Jul22.205203.17283@cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart  
Ritchie) writes:
> Oleg Perelet writes:
> >Eskandar Ensafi writes:
> >> Hi,
> >> 3) Has anyone tried running RenderMan on a NeXTdimension? Is it much  
faster?
> >NOO!
> >--
> >Oleg Perelet
> >perelet@wri.com
> 
> 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.
> 
> Stuart

I have it running on an ND - it seems quite fast but unfortunately at this  
point I have nothing to compare it to. When Ron gets back in town we'll se  
how it performs on a color turbo...

Gordon

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