[rescue] OT: Linux and USB on Intel

Wed Apr 23 11:30:04 CDT 2003

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:46:14PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> > is pretty small.  For instance, out of all the SGIs out there, how many
> > have 16+ megs of TRAM?
> 
> O2s do. :)

Yes, but they lack the horsepower for a lot of games.

> Do you really -need- 16MB of TRAM, though?

Yes, unless you want to spend a lot of bandwidth and CPU shoving it out
to the card.

Some games use well over 32MB of textures and having them on the
graphics card is a big win.

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