non-realtime graphics rendering...

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>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