> That was the realm of srs workstations like the ones SGI made Not exact. First, funny note, Seymour Cray admit, he used Macintosh to design Cray. Second, ex

> That was the realm of srs workstations like the ones SGI made Not exact. First, funny note, Seymour Cray admit, he used Macintosh to design Cray. Second, existed activity of using Atari ST for 3D design, as sort of companion machine for special model of Commodore, which could process analog video. As I seen, they directly write frame-by-frame on Betacam. Sure, rendering on ST with 68k was slow even with TV resolution, but they made lot of commercials on TV. In late 90s, TV commercials made on MMX or Pentium-Pro with 16..32mb of RAM, and use PC frame grabber cards and RAID HDD. And that's history, how SGI become bankrupt - just when Maya was ported to x86 this become end.