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

Scott Holder ncc1701 at mindspring.com
Thu Jan 23 21:07:19 PST 2003


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.

Scott Holder



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