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_at_siconic.com
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