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From: mark@fusion.MV.COM (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: PowerPCs and Lightwave?
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> Yeah, I guess I did over reach myself there. I meant the lowest Alphas,
> like 166MHz --
A year or two ago, I was a major PowerPC fan. Motorola really looked like
they could kick the crap out of the other vendors with a line of cpus
that were faster, cheaper, cooler, and smaller. Not to mention the
architecture was quite nice. But since then, IBM/Apple have really botched
the whole project, moving way to slowly on settung standards, continuous
political battles, and sending a very confused vision of how the PPC
systems will emerge onto the market.
> I hear the 620 chip is supposed to be rather impressive...
It was supposed to be, but its in major trouble right now. It may never
see the light of day. PPC looks pretty dismal right now.
And as far as the P6 is concerned, the only thing it has going for it is
some nice design for SMP. But its much touted performance is a big yawn.
Intel is besides themselves spewing large specint numbers, but they quitely
avoid talking about its truely dismal floating point, which is what us
animators really count on. Floating point is what makes the Alpha so
attractive, even though its such an expensive, watt-wasting pig.
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* Mark Thompson (603) 424-1829 *
* Fusion Films, Inc. mark@fusion.mv.com *
* Director of Animation and Special FX *
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