Chambers wrote:
> So, 30 seconds to build the model & send it to the screen.  It still 
> seems ridiculously slow, but this *was* 1976 :)

The Asteroids video game came out in 1979, so it's hard to believe that it 
really took that much more compute time, going from 2 minutes a frame to 
real-time, without something odd in the hardware going on.

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