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From: Carl (Charlie) English <carle@microsoft.com>
To: lightwave-l@netcom.com
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 94 17:19:22 PDT
Subject: RE: New options
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Raptor is just the one of the first of a wave of multi-exotic-processor
Windows NT machines you will see hit in the coming year. My advice is
to wait until Lightwave 4.0 for Windows actually releases to make a
purchasing decision, unless your needs are critical and near term.
Newtek announced it at SIGGRAPH, so I would hope they will have it by
the fall or early next year (Allen?). This gives you several benefits:
* You get Lightwave 4.0 which somebody at the Newtek booth said will
include the distributed renderer and the modeler, unlike today, when
you just get the distributed renderer.
* You get WinNT 3.5 which should be out by then and has OpenGL support,
as well as being smaller, faster, and all around better.
* You get to take advantage of the pricing wars as every company tries
to come out with a lower priced NT box.
* Assuming Lightwave takes advantage of OpenGL, you get to see who
comes out with low-priced OpenGL hardware acceleration and add that to the mix.
* Depending on which processors Lightwave has native support for, and
which ones NT has been released for, that adds flexibility to your
price/performance decision, as you may be able to choose freely between
Pentium, MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC (and who knows what else)?
Of course, if you're down in the trenches today, Raptor is an excellent
choice for the here and now. At SIGGRAPH, Deskstation was showing the
Raptor II - I don't know what relationship this has to the Raptor, but
it would be worth finding out about.
For my own hard-earned money, and since I'm basically a hobbyist
(meaning I can wait), I'm not going to buy anything without multiple
CPU capability (even if I just get one to start) and a PCI bus so I can
add standard peripherals.
Now if Newtek would just come out with a PCI Flyer we'd all be in Hog Heaven.
Just my personal 2 cents.
Charlie
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From: Adam Chrystie <adamchry@netcom.com>
To: <lightwave-l@netcom.com>
Subject: New options
Date: Wednesday, August 03, 1994 3:51PM
Okay, now that lightwave has a possibility of being released for
Windows NT machines...It opens some new doors...
Will the Raptor run other aplications besides screamer-net ?? Will it
run other windows NT applications??
here is something i got in the mail today from Digital Inc.
DEC with Alpha AXP-64-bit RISC processor at 150Mhz
Memory : 16MB expandable to 256 megs
compaq SVGA card 1024x768
Hard drive: 535 megs
3 button mouse
power coard
keyboard
OS:Windows NT-32 bit
and CD-rom drive.
$4,999.00
add $3,520.00 for 64 mB 70ns ram
Is raptor a better value? What else can raptor do?