Hi Glenn,
    um.... actually with the advent of 5.0 GB half-height drives someone could
easily have a 18 GB disc array sitting beside their desk!!!

    The amount of power on the Desktop is truly staggering to those who
understand it!!!  A true "User" just cares about how fast their DOOM runs!
hehehe :)

    The one thing that keeps "blowing my mind" is how users keep telling me that
their Pentium 133 with 1.6 GB drive and 16 MB of RAM just isn't enough for
them... and they are only doing WordProcessing Basically!!!!

Art Bahrs

>>> Glenn Cole <[log in to unmask]> 04/11/97 08:57am >>>
Is anyone else blown away by the amount of power available on the
desktop? From an article in MacWEEK at
<http://www.macweek.com/mw_1115/nw_promax.html> :

     Adobe Systems Inc.'s After Effects Pro running on a 410-MHz system
     with 256 Mbytes of RAM and an 18-Gbyte Wide Ultra SCSI-3 array took
     12 seconds to render a 3-second dissolve, McConathy said. A
     similarly configured 9600/200 required 36 seconds to accomplish the
     same task, he said.

(Not that I think someone has an 18-Gig array sitting ON their desk....)
The whole thing just blows my mind. Any amateur weather forecasters
out there? ;)

Maybe I've just been doing business-type programming for too long,
and have no concept of the resources needed to do, say, Toy Story.

Apologies to all who consider this a waste of bandwidth.

--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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