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To: Scumbria who wrote (73388)	2/11/1999 10:50:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

OK. Let's say that there are some sophisticated compression schemes which can be serviced favorably by a microprocessor. Do you need an $500-800 PIII to service this algorithm, or will it run with adequate performance on a $100 AMD processor? OK. Let's say that there are some sophisticated types of mathematical calculations involving non-integers that can be serviced favorably by a microprocessor. Do you need a processor with built-in instructions to service these calculations, or will it run with adequate performance on a chip without these instructions?

To: Scumbria who wrote (73388)	2/11/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: Haim Barad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

You are responding to this message from Scumbria on Feb 11 1999 10:42AM EST Haim, OK. Let's say that there are some sophisticated compression schemes which can be serviced favorably by a microprocessor. Do you need an $500-800 PIII to service this algorithm, or will it run with adequate performance on a $100 AMD processor? Scumbria Wait, you just said that the processor speed means nothing if the internet B/W is the bottleneck and that "regular" compression schemes can be done via simple H/W (e.g. your proposed FPGA chip). NURBS tessellation (just an example... by no means the only one) can provide tremendous compression of data in the way models are stored. And yes... the power of the processor will make a difference in spite of the limited B/W that you might have over the internet. Haim