On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Angus Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I always felt 3dsR4 was where it peaked . having to work with max 1 and 2 for > me wasn't a very pleasant experience. I was very grateful to move off off > that to a version of Softimage|DS > > I think the Autodesk management is underestimating how concerned their user > base has become.
Max 1 and 2 must have been a pretty tough time, given that it's a new app that didn't work with any of the DOS plug-ins, and .. was written for Windows NT, which nobody wanted to use or had the hardware for. (8 megs of RAM, are you crazy?) This was a time when people were still a couple years away from giving up hacking their config.sys and autoexec.bat to tweak the 640k DOS memory. Of course XSI had it owns OS choice issues and is still trailing the old SI|3D in animation performance as well. Still, being the vastly popular plug-in platform that it is, Max is the app we all wish we could have made.
