I remember helping PC Magazine out with the review of the Octane (not Octane 2) when I worked at SGI in 1997!
I took them through everything, and made sure that I took it apart, so they didn't feel like they needed to! (It was nicely built, but you had to be careful how you took it apart!).
I like to think that we got a really favourable review because of this. Of course, it didn't help SGI much!;-)
The SGI computers are mainly just for animator's workstations.
Just!? That is the hard stuff!
Any computer (even my palm pilot!) could do the rendering. That is why most people will end up doing this with cheaper linux boxes.
Oh yeah! I do work for SGI, so I am biased!
Mark
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This is good news. Too many "science" programmes on TV tell the story of the discovery (or theory), rather than try to explain the theory itself.
I remember helping PC Magazine out with the review of the Octane (not Octane 2) when I worked at SGI in 1997!
;-)
I took them through everything, and made sure that I took it apart, so they didn't feel like they needed to! (It was nicely built, but you had to be careful how you took it apart!).
I like to think that we got a really favourable review because of this. Of course, it didn't help SGI much!
Mark.
And presumably the FBI will want a backdoor to this, so that they can read anyone's documents or email?
Mark.
The SGI computers are mainly just for animator's workstations. Just!? That is the hard stuff! Any computer (even my palm pilot!) could do the rendering. That is why most people will end up doing this with cheaper linux boxes. Oh yeah! I do work for SGI, so I am biased! Mark
AGP isn't a bus (it is a port), so each AGP port is independent.
DEC's TurboCHANNEL was a similar implementation where each port (or in this case) channel could work at 12.5MHz or 25MHz.
This was replaced by PCI by the way!
Mark, but you can call me School Bully