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> Nobody was going to buy a Symbolics based on how fast it ran FFT.
I read a few years ago (could be 5+) about an animated TV commercial done
on a Symbolics machine. ISTR that the software used S Geometry.
So, I even if you might not buy such a machine for doing FFT, there was
still software for it that made it attractive to companies doing
graphics. I remember seeing that commercial, and it didn't look trivial.
Smarties (the product) were flying all around the screen. While such
things may be standard practice today, at the time animated computer
graphics wasn't nearly so common.
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