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From: Suraj Gulrajani <surajg@morakot.nectec.or.th>
To: "Erik C. Elvgren" <UCII@sysm.acs.virginia.edu>
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On 22 Feb 1995, Erik C. Elvgren wrote:
> I was wondering...I just purchased an ALR Pentium 90 (PCI/EISA) with
> 40 MB RAM, MGA Impression 4MB video card, and a Matrox Illuminator PRO
> board for outputting NTSC video...I'm interested in possibly getting LW
> and wanted to know if there was anything else I needed to purchase in
> order to output frames individually? I know I can get a PAR to work wi
> th a PC, but can I get away from having to make that extra investment?
> Will LW talk to the illuminator pro (I'd rather avoid Topas and Autode
> sk because the first IMHO has a large learning curve and a weak modelle
> r, the second IMHO is an inferior program all the way around)? And if
> not, how difficult will it be to do a mass transfer of files from that
> CPU to my 4000's PAR? (yes, this is an afterthought because the main
> reason we bought the computer was for higher quality CG work).
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
One easy way would simply be to network your A4k to your PC... An
ethernet card on both end running TCP/IP and NFS and there you are! I'd
say its the best setup possible... I have the same setup.. ;^)