From: dekorte@ibm7.scri.fsu.edu (Stephen L. DeKorte)
Subject: Re: TECH: Amiga VR?
Date: 12 Dec 92 02:15:46 GMT
Organization: SCRI



In article <10DEC199201131290@trentu.ca> tsullivan@trentu.ca (The OTHER One True God) writes:
>(Steve Pittman) writes...
>>looking around in an Amiga store, and they had an A2000 (I think) set up
>>w/a Video Toaster, etc, and the WHOLE setup was like, $5000...the VT is..

The better part of the hardware in the Video Toaster is for video
work(chromakeying color mapping,etc.) - it's not a board made for VR
(no zbuffer,etc.) So the VT is a bad example of the Amiga's VR
potiential(although an excelent example of the Amiga's multimedia
potiental-the equivilant hardware on other machines would be many
times more expensive).

>  For $5000 you can get a 486-33 with an i860 math coprocessor which will 
>give you as much computing power as your average Cray. 

What's the performance for this 486-33 with i860mc system as far as say,
 gourad shaded polygons/sec? (VR isn't just number-crunching)

SD