History
Historically, the first incarnation of RenderMan was as a Macintosh program running on Motorola 68000/68030 processors, System 6 and LocalTalk. Render farm calculations were display independent; for example, a fast Macintosh SE/30 with monochrome-only output could take part in rendering full-color images, sending the results back to a color-capable but slower Macintosh II.
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