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From: paul@pcserv.demon.co.uk (Paul Carpenter)
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: 32-bit Imaging Software for Windows 3.1
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will@icess.ucsb.edu "William C. Snyder" writes:
-paul@pcserv.demon.co.uk (Paul Carpenter) says:
->gruijter@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz "Terry Gruijters" writes:
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-[...]
->-V for Windows is a unique imaging product which uses high speed 32-bit code
->-(even under 16-bit Windows) ...
->
->Slight mute point I hope you mean either MS-Windows 3.11 (WFWG) or MS-Windows
->V3.10 on a '386?
->
->As V3.10 will run on a '286 in 16 bit windows but no 32 bit code capability.
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-1. Image processing on a 286???  yeesh!! That's almost four generations ago!! 

Just because you *may* be able to upgrade all your equipment every time a new
version comes out does not mean all users or systems are. Perhaps you look
for go-faster stripes on your car as well? Not what will do the job required.

I know of several systems that are still being sold with old generation CPUs
and frame grabbers, not by myself but others. A lot of industrial systems still 
use 286 or possibly 386 as the processing is done on a series of DSPs and the 
host is used to load the software and communicate the results.

Also remember Hubbell only just uses a 386 and more recently a 387 as well, and
that must surely be one of the most expensive Imaging front ends around :-)

-- 
Paul - "Any people you should meet are the products of a deranged imagination"
