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renderwall
 n.— «Remember the movie Toy Story? Well, when Pixar did the rendering on that, they created their own supercomputer to do it. The supercomputer in question was dozens of rack-mounted Sun workstations sans monitors and with their cpus replaced by Ross hyperSPARCs. They called it the RenderWall.» —“newsletter selections” by mtucker@world.std.com (Michael Jay Tucker) Usenet: comp.unix.solaris July 30, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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