[Duo2400] Re: non-realtime graphics rendering...

[Larry Friedman]

Think of it this way, Photoshop needs all the computational help it can 
get to do its trickery. Specifically help from a chip dedicated to 
crunching numbers.

~ Larry


On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 05:43  PM, ELN/rlf9 wrote:

>
>> From: Scott Holder <ncc1701 at mindspring.com>
>> Subject: [Duo2400] Re: non-realtime graphics rendering...
>>
>> At 11:13 PM 1/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>>> Back in the days before computers got tremendously powerful, most 
>>>> people
>>>> were doing non-realtime because it took time to calculate all the 
>>>> stuff.
>>>> These days, though, even a $400 computer can do real-time pretty 
>>>> well.
>>>
>>> So, at least for image rendering, fpu's were rather worthless in 68k
>>> Macs? Why did Apple install them then?
>>>
>>> Bob F
>>
>> They made an amazing difference in things like photoshop and other 
>> such
>> things. Remember Macs were used for things like graphic design and 
>> various
>> other static image things long before video.
>
> Exactly, but that's all non-realtime image rendering, no?
>
> Bob F
>
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