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040 Accelerator

    07-Jul-91 13:23:57
Sb: #27586-040 Accelerator
Fm: John Pendergrass 76246,676
To: Jonathan Hirschman 70274,2526
Jonathan, if it's any consolation, I've wondered the same thing. Seems to me that applications like ray-tracing, etc would benefit by SOME amount by sending off some of the job to a BridgeBoard? You'd give the top 2/3 of the screen rendering to the 68000/030 and the remainder to the 286 bridgeboard, for instance? Wouldn't be incredible, but would be faster, no? But then again, from a developer point of view, how many people are both ray tracers and have 286 bridgeboards? And having to write the rendering code in both 68000 and 286 code would almost certainly be more trouble than the limited sales would support. –jp–seattle–