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From: rhartzog@tbag.tscs.com (Rayvon Hartzog)
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Allen says
AH>...Starting with the best 040 Amigas (like those using the
AH> 40 MHz Warp Engine), those are roughly equivalent in rendering
AH> power to my 66 MHz 486DX2 PC, which is in turn about 2.5 times
AH> slower than my 100 MHz R4400 PC. I don't have a Pentium, but
AH> those fall somewhere in between the 486 and MIPS (closer to the
AH> MIPS side). My fastest machine uses a 275 MHz Alpha AXP chip,
AH> and it's roughly three times faster than the MIPS (and therefore
AH> about 7.5 times faster than my 486 or the best Amigas)....
I thought that since MOST of us don't have the fastest Amiga's, that
maybe Allen could do a test render of a scene that came with Lightwave
like the Texture examples with raytraced shadows, refraction, and
antialiasing turned on. Then we could compare it to our SLOOOOW machines
and be very sad.
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