[Duo2400] Re: non-realtime graphics rendering...

[Larry Friedman]

Think of it this way, Photoshop needs all the computational help it can get to do its trickery. Specifically help from a chip dedicated to crunching numbers.

~ Larry


On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 05:43 PM, ELN/rlf9 wrote:

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.

Exactly, but that's all non-realtime image rendering, no?

Bob F

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