From: rych@festival.ed.ac.uk (R Hawkes)
Subject: Re: REV-ENTERTAIN: Big Screen Simulator Rides
Organization: Edinburgh University

joachim lous <joachim@kih.no> writes:

>What really bugs me about these macines, is why they use Amigas.  Not
>that i'm involved in the holy Amiga war, but given the price of the
>external hardware and custom equipment in these setups, they could put
>so much more raw processing power AND graphics hardware in there and
>the total price increase would hardly be noticeable.  How about an
>Indigo at the heart of this baby?

Virtuality`s next generation of systems are based around a Pentium PC
and a scalable parallel architecture that comes in the form of
multiple cards, each with 2 Motorola 88110 microprocessors on it.  Up
to 32 cards (I believe) can be connected together.  They are certainly
using these for rendering but I'm not sure if they are going to be
using them for anything else.

Maybe the new hi-res Visettes are only deemed worthy of the new systems.

Rych

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