CompuServe Messages

Yes, the little red bar IS constantly being updated, but that's hardly on the order of the constant polling of Windows and System 7. I really would like to see 3DS running on a PowerPC under PowerOpen or what have you…it would be interesting to see, but I honestly doubt that it would render as fast, much less faster, than a current Intel chip. Even with all their shortcomings with newer and better features being built on top of outdated technology, Intel chips have the same kind of integer performance that some of the fastest RISC chips (R4400 and DEC Alpha, for instance) are blessed with. The idea is that a system like 3D Studio, with its enormous need for processing power, should not also be slowed down further by being asked to calculate the space between pretty font characters just so that we'll all lose our eyesight that much sooner. Bottom line for me is: what platform that we can all afford, other than Intel, do you think 3D Studio would actually perform better on?