From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 27 7:20:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from web1302.mail.yahoo.com (web1302.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE3BB37BC45 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 07:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpiponi@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 11986 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Mar 2000 15:20:09 -0000 Message-ID: <20000327152009.11985.qmail@web1302.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.7.201.244] by web1302.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 07:20:09 PST Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 07:20:09 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Piponi Subject: Re: FreeBSD, The Matrix, Academy Awards To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > As we all know, these were made on a computer running > FreeBSD. Ahhh! Those were the days when you could do visual effects using just *a* computer! :-) Actualy the rendering was done on a render farm consisting of 32 Dell twin proc Pentium II's running FreeBSD alongside a similar number of IRIX machines. Those FreeBSD boxes really saved our asses at the final render crunch! -- Dan Piponi dan@mvfx.com Head of R&D Manex Visual Effects "There is no spoon" - The Matrix __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message