3 Oct
1998
3 Oct
'98
2:43 p.m.
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Jim Strickland wrote:
A cray 1 was not, or at least not the only computer
used to render the graphics
in Last Starfighter. A friend of my wife's worked for the company that DID
the graphics, and she told me once what it was, and it was NOT a Cray.
A Cray was used to render Tron, if memory serves, however.
IIRC; the main graphics machine was a Perkin-Elmer device..
somewhere I have that description of it... they were one of the
hi-thruput also-rans that dropped out via natural selection. P/E are
also the folks who brought you the only-slightly-out-of-spec Hubble
telescope Mirror.
Cheers
John