non-realtime graphics rendering...

[ELN/rlf9]

>From: Scott Holder <ncc1701 at mindspring.com>
>Subject: [Duo2400] Re: Replacement PB Duo 270C active matrix screen?
>
>At 10:18 PM 1/22/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>non-realtime graphics rendering...
>>
>>real-time graphics rendering...
>>
>
>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