3 Oct
1998
3 Oct
'98
11:04 p.m.
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Jim Strickland wrote:
> > Hi. I subscribe to CLASSICCMP and this
discussion came up. You mentioned
> > once that a company you'd worked for did the graphics for Last
Starfighter,
> > so I was wondering if you knew what kind of computer they were done on.
> >
> Yup. They were done on a Ramtek 2020, with the images stored and
> manipulated using a VAX mainframe. There were a number of things
> that people thought were models which were really images done with
> the Ramtek.
>
> As I understand it, the 2020 was capable of doing certain kinds of
> transforms on the images, but that sometimes the VAX was used for
> other kinds of transforms, and then the images piped back to the
> 2020 for final display/debugging before going to film.
Ok, cool. Noted. None of the contestants came up with that answer
either, so we're in the clear (no need for a recall, whew!)
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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