Apple Clones (was: [rescue] BMRT SGI)

[Kevin]

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I'm fairly ignorant on the Avid options at the
time, but i'm talking well before media100 days, single
frame to tape not real time :) Targa cards (pre Targa
2000).

The toaster came out before the first PAR and well
before the PVR.

3DS was what made me move from Mac to PC.  10x better
than any other PC or Mac option circa 1993-1994, 3DS
2.x and 3.x days.  In fact my very first experience in
networking came from wanting to use 3DS in DOS and
Photoshop on the Mac (FTP server on the Mac, there may
have been a better option but i wasn't aware of it).

IMHO Lightwave's rendering
capabilities exceeded those of 3DS by a large amount
at the time (3DS didn't even have ray tracing) but the
work flow stuff got on my nerves in a big way. I could
never get with it, and 3DS 4.x allowed for better
texture control, once again IMHO.

/KRM

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:30:10 -0500
Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:16:43AM -0500, Kevin
> wrote:
> 
> > They were good for 3D at a time when there was
> > little else of value on the PC.  I got started with
> > my IIci using Macromind 3D (now Macromedia),
> > MacRenderMan and Infini-D.... oh and of course
> > Swivel 3D.
> > 
> > And for years the PC versions of Photoshop and
> > Illustrator (which made CorelDraw look silly)
> > lagged way behind the Mac versions.
> > 
> > There was Amiga but before the Toaster it was a
> > PITA going to tape.
> 
> The Mac was easier to go to tape?  The only Nubus
> card I can think of for that task would be the
> nuvista, but those didn't do compression. Otherwise,
> it would have had to be avid or media100.
> 
> BTW, was the DPS PAR pre or post Toaster?  A friend
> of mine used the DPS PAR and liked it.  
> 
> I'm sure that the PC version lagged behind.  Even
> still, is there really much support for properly
> color correcting a PC?
> 
> I know that MacRenderman was great, but I never used
> any of the other programs.  My first experiences were
> 3DS the DOS program and Lightwave. In my opinion,
> until Max came out, there was no way you could
> possibly argue that 3DS was better, though some
> people tried for some reason.  I always vastly
> prefered lightwave until I got some softimage
> experience.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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