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Not sure if you worked with it in the early '90's, but on a Mac w/4MB of RAM, it took ~5-10 minutes to undo a Guassian Blur. The pain was real. The way to go b
by ompogUe 2y ago
Not sure if you worked with it in the early '90's, but on a Mac w/4MB of RAM, it took ~5-10 minutes to undo a Guassian Blur. The pain was real.
The way to go back then was the SGI Indigo w/96MB.
It worked best for me in the late '90's on a 9500, and even then needed an entire GB of RAM.
- alamortsubite 2y agoHa! In the early '90's the way to go was Live Picture [1]! Your undo would have been instantaneous! Unfortunately, Live Picture only ran on Mac. Photoshop was a bit janky on SGI back then, IIRC, but still the better of the two platforms overall. [1] http://lensgarden.com/uncategorized/live-picture-software-that-was-way-ahead-of-its-time/ http://lensgarden.com/uncategorized/live-picture-software-th...
- ompogUe 2y agoYes, I remember Live Picture! It was slick. I actually spent more time in that and Fractal Design Painter, than Photoshop back then.
- huxley 2y agoHahaha that’s Old School. Live Picture was one of several photo compositor tools that focused on Photoshop’s pain points. Fauve Matisse was a little earlier than Live Picture and I believe it introduced layers to Mac photo editing. They ended up getting acquired by Macromedia (or perhaps even Macromind) after a rewrite to compete with Live Picture it was renamed Xres and then abandoned.
- Daub 2y agoI believe that Livepicture was fast because they loaded the full image as a set of tiles. I also believe that Photoshop was 'inspired' to introduce layers in version 3 in response to Livepicture's layers. It was layers which caused Photoshop to explode in popularity. Adobe then went on to sue Macromedia for using tabs in their interface. Bummer.
- sillywalk 2y ago> Photoshop was a bit janky on SGI It was ported over to Irix (and Sun/Solaris/HP-UX and Rhapsody) using a toolkit called Lattitude[1], sort of a reverse-engineered Mac toolbox, that translated Mac API calls to the appropriate Unix/Motif/$Whatever calls, using the native look and feel. The earlier version was used to port MS Word/Excel to Unix. Metrowerks purchased it for porting (classic) Mac apps to Rhapsody. [1] http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06/Jun97FactoryFloor/index.html http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06/Ju... [There's an IEEE article if you have access, which I don't: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/186761 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/186761
- apercu 2y ago"SGI Indigo". I had one of these. Not for Photoshop but still...
- DonHopkins 2y ago"Indy: an Indigo without the 'go'". -- Mark Hughes (?) http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarrassing-memo.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarrassi...
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> There are too many daemons. In a vanilla 5.1 installation with Toto, there are 37 background processes. Comparing the output of `ps aux` on a default install of Debian and OpenBSD still gives me this feeling:)
- nullhole 2y agoExcellent joke. Indy still had the best looking case, though, I think. There's something about that sliced-box appearance that's so unexpected and interesting.
- boffinAudio 2y agoI have my SGI O2 sitting on top of my Indy, just because the contrast in design ethos inspires me, somehow.
- Daub 2y agoPeople forget that Photoshop worked on a Silicon Graphics box. It was indeed the way to go, so long as you could afford it.