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#WOW…What'sa Raptor?

    14-Mar-94 21:32:59
Sb: #WOW…What'sa Raptor?
Fm: NEIL R. THOMPSON 71603,2277
To: All-Toaster-Heads
OK, now that I've gotten my new Edit Suite/Office place open, and can come back Online to catch up on all the New-Tek gossip I find out that I've missed the biggest Toaster News of the: 1) Year 2) Decade 3) Past couple-o-days (Pick one). Can someone PLEASE post a spec list for this "RAPTOR" thing? How much? How big? Rackmount ? (Oh… Pretty Please…) Lightwave only, or will I be able to blister some other developers code too? Unix, Full Windows NT, bare bones NT, or custom code? System Overhead? Upgrad-ability? Can I buy a "Black-Box" and just keep adding processor cards untill I can cook dinner on my electric meter? Display options ? (It won't bother me one whit if you wanted to throw in a nice Real-time, Head Mounted, Proximity sensing, Stereo Display and its attendant Solid rendering, Spline/Nurb/Patch/Mesh modeling utility and Data input glove. Realy, I won't mind in the least. 😉 ). Will I be able to make off-handed comments to users of all other graphics platforms about "Once having to use under-powered equipment, just like you…" ? Well I'd better get back to the real world now… You Know… The one where Mac and IBM users say "You use a What?" and C= stock trades for about $2 a pop plus change… sigh… (Can you tell that I talked to my broker today…? ) Please, someone tell me this thing's for real and not some sick joke… I could use a little encouragement…