Originally posted by Chirone
for some reason i thought that adobe products and Maya were aimed towards running more efficiently on Macs...
or maybe that was just macromedia products prior the merge(?) of adobe and macromedia
From what I understand, Maya was targeted towards two platforms - MIPS/IRIX and x86/Windows, with MIPS/IRIX targeted more aggressively.
Surprisingly, despite all the myths about Apple being the "graphics company", I recall articles from magazines about how high end software - really high end software from companies like Discreet was optimised for MIPS/IRIX till near the very end of the platform's competiveness. I even remember an interview where the Discreet representatives were saying that if people were serious about their apps, they would run it on MIPS/IRIX.
C. P. U. Its not a big processor... Its a series of pipes!