>From: Scott Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [Duo2400] Re: non-realtime graphics rendering... > >At 11:13 PM 1/23/2003 -0500, you wrote: >> >Back in the days before computers got tremendously powerful, most people >> >were doing non-realtime because it took time to calculate all the stuff. >> >These days, though, even a $400 computer can do real-time pretty well. >> >>So, at least for image rendering, fpu's were rather worthless in 68k >>Macs? Why did Apple install them then? >> >>Bob F > >They made an amazing difference in things like photoshop and other such >things. Remember Macs were used for things like graphic design and various >other static image things long before video.
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