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On Sat, 30 Sep 1995, Peter Bowmar wrote:

> Well, when the $5000 cards are out, SGI will have moved on into realtime
> and faster than realtime graphics cards. Unless someone can detect a peak
> somewhere, SGI will always stay ahead of PC stuff. I love Lightwave, and
> use it daily, but if you sit down at an Alpha with Lightwave, and do a
> job, and then do the same job on Prisms or Softimage, the SGI job will be
> faster. For many people, mostly big production companies, the SGIs are
> worth the price. I sure can't afford one, but it's nice using them, and
> as much as I love Lightwave, if someone offered me an Alpha with LW or an
> Indy with Prisms, I'd take Prisms any day.
>
> Not meaning to flame LW or be unduly supportive of SGI, but there is a
> reason they are succesful...

This is mainly because of the SGI's graphics processor. Even though the
Alpha is a faster cpu than the R4600, a machine is only a fast as its
slowest link. In the Alpha case, the standard graphics card is no match
for the Reality engine, plus there are some things in the way modeler
refreshes, that make it appear slower than it is. This is all changing,
and I can tell you that you will be hearing a different tune from
Lightwave. With some new stuff we're doing, combined with just the
$2000 version of a 3D based graphics card and the speed of the Alpha
cpu, the Indigo2 will have a formidable opponent on its hands. Stage one
was just getting the LW ported and working on the other platforms, while
at the same time adding a whole plugin access base, and some new
features. Remember that there was only Allen and Stuart working on doing
all of this, which is quite an accomplishment for the time frame that it
happened in. Now there is Allen, Stuart, myself and Arnie, and the
Cannons are loaded.

Fori.
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