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5 Sep 2024 01:25:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3D modelling in the 70's  
From: Tim Cook
Date: 22 Nov 2009 11:54:56
Message: <4b096ce0$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> 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.

Asteroids wasn't 3D.  Even slightly.

--
Tim Cook
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