CompuServe Messages

Ana, I havn't used the Adaptec controllers but I have heard that they are the most "compatible". I haven't seen a VLB version yet though… You may be right about VLB being a short term solution — but for disk access the VLB is already much faster than any disk drives. Video and networking may be a slightly different story. Of course, the VLB spec can easily be updated to 64 bit (VLB2?), but that won't help you if you go out and buy a 32 bit VLB system today… I think that PCI is overkill in personal computers. It's major advantage is peer-to-peer transfers across the bus. That's theoretically interesting but I don't see many real world applications out there. On the subject of NT and multiprocessing and 3DStudio…. I don't think you understand: NT may handle multiprocessing, but no single program will run any faster than any single one of the processors can execute it unless it's rewritten for the multiprocessor environment. For a single program to take advantage of multiple processors it must be re-written so split it's work between the processors. Many applications can be optimized this way but many can't either (3DS probably could). For example, I may have two secretaries, but If I give all my typing to one of them (one program, one processor) it doesn't help me that I have two. If I give half of my typing to one, and the other half to the other, the work will get done nearly twice as fast (thre's the overhead of splitting the task in the first place, synchronizing, and joining the finished work together at the end). Programs that run on the PC now are the equivalent of giving all the work to one secratary. On the other hand you will be able to generate 5 seperate images or animations by running several 3D Studios at the same time. John.