My REAL e-mail is ampex225@bellsouth.net. Use it. You're a freaking idiot. AGP is slow and useless for anything except your mother's AOL chat rooms. SGI is real graphics. IRIX is real UNIX. It's... I'm going to say it BETTER THAN LINUX! And The Fuel's a REAL WORKSTATION. Not a cheap-o $2,500 linux box. I've used SGIs since 1988 and the Power Series not to metion the IRIS Indigo, and I can tell you, the PC will never compete. David Gelernter said it the best, "The desktop is dead".
Your little post is humerous enough. Why use one of these instead of a dual 1GHz Power Macintosh? Do you know what real UNIX is? Do you know what IRIX is, and have you ever used it? I use it daily, I'm using it right now on my 2-week old, $100,000 Octane2. It's the fastest workstation of any kind I've ever used, and I've used everything, from the older SGI Power Series up to the new Sun Blades, IBM RS/6000, and the depressingly underperforming HP J6700. I can tell that you've never used IRIX because you don't mention it. SGIs have the Unified Memory Archetecture. Not availible on Power Macintosh. You get much better built equipment as well, because this isn't everyone's power macintosh, it's built perfectly for your professional needs. Also, it's ridiculous. LINUX CLUSTERS?!?!?! Why not buy a few SGI Onyx3000s with the new InfinitePerformace and InfiniteReality3 Graphics systems?! Insanity!
Well, we all mess up occasionally. Some more than others... If you haven't made the connection yet, wait a second and re-read this. Then read my signature.
My subject says it all. Look at Mir. I also hate to be brutal and frank, but it's just that if the Russians are going to go into space they need to get someone else to build the vehicle.
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My REAL e-mail is ampex225@bellsouth.net. Use it. You're a freaking idiot. AGP is slow and useless for anything except your mother's AOL chat rooms. SGI is real graphics. IRIX is real UNIX. It's... I'm going to say it BETTER THAN LINUX! And The Fuel's a REAL WORKSTATION. Not a cheap-o $2,500 linux box. I've used SGIs since 1988 and the Power Series not to metion the IRIS Indigo, and I can tell you, the PC will never compete. David Gelernter said it the best, "The desktop is dead".
Your little post is humerous enough. Why use one of these instead of a dual 1GHz Power Macintosh? Do you know what real UNIX is? Do you know what IRIX is, and have you ever used it? I use it daily, I'm using it right now on my 2-week old, $100,000 Octane2. It's the fastest workstation of any kind I've ever used, and I've used everything, from the older SGI Power Series up to the new Sun Blades, IBM RS/6000, and the depressingly underperforming HP J6700. I can tell that you've never used IRIX because you don't mention it. SGIs have the Unified Memory Archetecture. Not availible on Power Macintosh. You get much better built equipment as well, because this isn't everyone's power macintosh, it's built perfectly for your professional needs. Also, it's ridiculous. LINUX CLUSTERS?!?!?! Why not buy a few SGI Onyx3000s with the new InfinitePerformace and InfiniteReality3 Graphics systems?! Insanity!
Well, we all mess up occasionally. Some more than others... If you haven't made the connection yet, wait a second and re-read this. Then read my signature.
My subject says it all. Look at Mir. I also hate to be brutal and frank, but it's just that if the Russians are going to go into space they need to get someone else to build the vehicle.