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  4. From: lthumper@bga.com (Jeff Kramer)
  5. Newsgroups: comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
  6. Subject: Re: Alias & Wavefront acquisition...
  7. Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 21:19:06 -0600
  8. Organization: Carpe Diem, Inc.
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  10. Message-ID: <lthumper-1702952119060001@ivy-b6.ip.realtime.net>
  11. References: <3hqnm1$86s@news.xmission.com> <3hr58p$k0l@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3hth88$4bq@beta.inc.net>
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  13.  
  14. In article <3hth88$4bq@beta.inc.net>, syndesis@beta.inc.net (John Foust) wrote:
  15.  
  16. > And why couldn't SGI produce machines based on non-MIPS chips?
  17.  
  18. They could.
  19.  
  20. > SGI's real selling point has been fast processors, fast bus,
  21. > fast graphics accelleration...  and there are plenty of
  22. > non-MIPS alternatives to these today.
  23.  
  24. But not many that SGI owns.  If you didn't know already, MIPS is a wholly
  25. owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
  26.  
  27. > My guess is at NAB, we'll see 3D Studio NT on display, running
  28. > multithreaded on a six-Pentium Intergraph PC and an Alpha, 
  29. > along with Microsoft showing off Micro-Softimage on NT, and
  30. > SGI won't have anything to show as a result of their proposed
  31. > merger.
  32.  
  33. SGI may be showing off more than you imagine.  ;>  Little birds perch on
  34. many a-shoulder.
  35.  
  36.                                                    Little Thumper
  37.                                                  -lthumper@bga.com-
  38.        http://www.realtime.net/~lthumper/           Jeff  Kramer
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