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–