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#Real3D

    22-Aug-94 12:41:19
Sb: #42978-#Real3D
Fm: Sean Howard 74672,2530
To: Elliot Bain 72467,3500
Hmmmm. This is a touchy one. I have been playing with the IBM/AMIGA concept for a few weeks now. Here's my input. The toaster output is touchy at best. With no Component support, it is definitely not the #1 output device. Do you use a PAR? The Amiga par is still revision one. The IBM par is in revision two. At SIGGRAPH, they said they have no plans to update the Amiga PAR at this time. True, output boards on the IBM are expensive. But, you will be able to render faster, cheaper on the IBM. IBMs are much more inexpensive when compared to a similarly sped up Amiga. Third party devlopers were sometimes doing nothing more than plugging a new bus into the Commodore Amigas to increase their speed. Commodore constantly put out faster computers with worse and worse busses (the 4000) I am not trying to be hostile here. I just think that with more and more software and hardware developers leaving the Amiga (ASDG won't even acknowledge us anymore!) it might be best to look to the faster and less expensive machines.