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- From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
- Subject: Re: Vivid-24 and SGI
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.131115.8936@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:11:15 GMT
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- In article <gregpen.725621307@crash.cts.com> gregpen@crash.cts.com (Greg Penetrante) writes:
-
- >>...for $200,000 you could probably buy 50 or so Amigas with Vivid boards!
- >
- > ... But the SGI would still be BETTER!
- >
- > In terms of REAL-WORLD mentality where price/performance isn't necessarily
- > a factor in getting CLIENTS and BUSINESS. A few firms here in San Diego
- > do tons of business with their SGI's; whereas another local Amiga firm aches
- > by with a few clients a month... and has to rent out its video editing and
- > hardware to make up the difference.
-
-
- You can't pick out isolated cases and claim that they represent things as a
- whole. Amigas are used professionaly too. Even the major networks are
- using Toasters. I'll bet than in any night of TV viewing, you see several
- or maybe even dozzens of clips produced with Amiga or Toasters!
-
-
- > Not to mention: SGI will STILL BE MORE EFFICIENT at generating images! Once
- > again, in a REAL-WORLD business climate, you are looking for maximum
- > turnaround for dollars spent. Agreed, that a Vivid-24 system will cost way
- > less, a user would still have to WAIT until final images are finally rendered
- > and dumped to tape. Maybe such a system could do, perhaps a few seconds of
- > images PER HOUR; On the other hand, a fully loaded SGI can dump MINUTES of
- > final images to tape, thereby being MORE EFFICIENT, and generating MORE
- > DOLLARS per hour spent.
-
-
- I think it depends on what you're doing. With one $200,000 SGI, you can
- have one $40,000 per year artist busy while four other $40,000 per year
- artists are standing around the coffee machine. With $200,000 worth of
- Amiga hardware, each $40,000 per year artist could have his own machine
- with all sorts of software and hardware.
-
- And the next thing coming down the pike is "distributive processing".
- Well it is not really new, but on a network, you can have software that
- looks around for idle machines and uses them to process. It will
- distribute portions of the needed processing around the network.
-
- > And that, folks, is all that counts.
-
-
- SGI has it's place. I like SGI and think they're a great company who makes
- great products. But Amiga is a great product too and you're kidding y
- yourself if you think that you need a 20, 50, or 200 thousand dollor SGI
- system for everything video or graphic.
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- NCW
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