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Subject: Re: Alpha vs Pentium Pro vs SGI
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Scott Burton wrote:

>
> I saw a demo of the TDZ two weeks ago running Softimage and it was pretty
> darn nice. However, cost wise it is the price of a High end ALPHA or more.

Yeah your right about the price the TDZs are pretty dear.

> Certainly it has the advantage of graphic accelerators etc for nice
> shaded displays and stuff, but I still think the ALPHA's win out in the
> sheer horsepower department.

> So, I guess it depends on what your looking for, nice real time feed back
> in modeling/animation (TDZ) or rendering power (Alpha's).

Can't the video accelerator on the TDZ be used on an alpha? From memory the card fit
onto a PCI slot so it should be able to work. Any idea how much the video card costs?

> Scott Burton - Lightwave Moderator - Command Line BBS
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