[rescue] Wow, 30k Graphics Card From Sun

[George Adkins]

> > As far as my opinion goes, the O2 *is* in the same class as an indy.
> >
> > it's the 'Packard Bell" of the sgi line in it's timeframe.
>
> Yes, but the Indy couldn't do anything better than an Indigo2.  Where
> as, there are a few things the O2 can do better than the Octane
> (rendering things with 100s of megs of textures being the big one,
> like for rendering volumetrics).

That's because the Indigo2 was a better machine.
The fact that an o2 can render with hundreds of megs of textures better than 
the Octane is an accident of it's cheesy design.

What good is hundreds of megs of main memory taken out of use to store 
textures anyway when the 3d performance is nonexistent/poor?

George