#Info for PPC users
29-Jan-95 00:00:52
Sb: #3548-#Info for PPC users
Fm: Jim Jonah 73517,3532
To: Elsby Littlewood 100016,401
Elsby,
>> As I said its fine but are you saying it would be slowing the Mac down. I
should take the card out & connect to the 7100's video? <<
No, the video card won't (shouldn't?) slow down the Mac, per se, UNLESS, what
you are doing depends upon screen redraw. A:M is great in that respect. When
working in sculpture, A:M's interuptable screen redraw makes most things "seem"
like real-time.
BUT, if you are rendering and you leave "show display" on, then the speed of
you video card can slow down the rendering. I always turn off the "show
display" command, only occasionally turning it on just to check the image. This
may have been what I was referring to, or I may have been claiming that, for
me, using the PMacs PDS video card (with 4megs VRAM) seems about as fast as the
Thunder II GX cards we have at work.
Again, the speed of the screen redraw only slows down the computer (Mac or PC)
when the next operation depends upon the screen redraw to be finished.
Did I clear that up? I hope <G>.
Jim