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Star Wars and the PDP-11 (and GRASS graphics language)

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I was browsing through old Datamation articles looking for something else, but came across this in October 1977 issue...


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Ahahahaha, per Wikipedia:
The animation as a whole was expected to take a total of 12 hours to render, but it invariably crashed after about 30 minutes. Eventually, they gave up late on Saturday before the film had to be delivered on Monday. Cuba turned down the air conditioning before going to sleep on a bed in the computer room. On a lark, he ran it one last time and then went to sleep. That time it managed to run through the night and completed successfully. It was later realized the air conditioning had been too high.
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Interesting that it was having the AC on too high that gave them trouble. I know core can be temperature-sensitive - or possibly it was causing power fluctuations?
 
From the article:

def. Death Star: a "planet-sized battlewagon"

(well, moon-sized at least)
 
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