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- From: u926135@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Adrian Hassall Lewis)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
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- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
- References: <9211241336.AA22289@menora.weizmann.ac.il> <1992Nov25.131105.4955@cc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Nov26.015031.29333@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 11:18:54 GMT
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- >In article <1992Nov26.015031.29333@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
- >
- > I agree with everything Thomas Sippel said and only want to add one point.
- > More and more, high performance computing is graphical computing. This is
- > certainly true in Biology and I expect in Chemical Physics as well.
- >
- > If you look at Dec, Sun, and IBM, their graphics strategy has been
- > pretty uninspired. As an old PDP-11 user, I have tremendous respect for
- > Ken Olsen -- but let's face it, if there ever was a "left-brained"
- > person, it was Ken. Dec never had a coherent graphics vision and as far I
- > can see, it still doesn't. Sun is just as bad -- witness the TACC-1,
- > the incompatible TACC-2, and the lastest in the line, the incompatible
- > Freedom 3000 (Evans&Sutherland add on board). And IBM? As someone
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > who still owns an IBM PC/RT, don't get me started...
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- > --
- > David M. Senseman, Ph.D. | A man who has never gone to school may steal
- > (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu) | from a freight car; but if he has a university
- > Division of Life Sciences | education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- > UT San Antonio | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
-
- Excuse me but I'd like to get you (and anyone else) started.
-
- Firstly, on the RS/6000's a large amount of the graphics hardware and software
- is licenced from SGI, so what's the big problem with IBM's graphics?
-
- Secondly, I am looking at doing computational chemistry on an RS/6000 and I'd
- like to see you (or anyone else) try to talk me out of it (or support it).
-
- ajax
-
- Adrian.Lewis@iasos.utas.edu.au
-
- PS Sorry about the cross-posts, but I don't know where this thread first
- started.
-
- PPS Please attack via email.
-