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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: SGI-GL in Windows NT??
- Message-ID: <hatton.726615957@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 21:45:57 GMT
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- Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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- 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon) writes:
- >hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
- > >> (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:
- > >> >(Jay Maynard) writes:
- > >> >>dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) writes:
- > >> >>>A guy I work with told me today the Microsoft has bought the rights to
- > >> >>>include SGI-GL with Windows NT and will be including it in an upcoming
- > >> >>>release! This is quite an advantage over OS/2 and brings NT to
- > >> >>>workstation level, in my opinion. If NT will have GL standard, I will
- > >> >>>most likely be switching over from OS/2.
- > >> >>
- > >> >>OK...what is SGI-GL, and what's so great about it?
- > >>
- > >> >SGI-GL is the Graphics-Library, Silicon Graphics is using on their work-
- > >> >stations. I personally have no experience with it, but the people, that
- > >> >are using it here on IRISes and INDIGOs are very satisfied.
- > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > >> Thanks for making the point - it's the HARDWARE that SGI has that makes
- > >> the software look nice. I shudder to think of all those polygons being
- > >> massaged on a 486 with a (S)VGA, presuming that kind of config is even
- > >> supported.
-
- >I work in a segment of the semiconductor industry that sells chips to people
- >like SGI. The graphics accelerator used has the MIPs equivalent of about 10
- >486s, and the MFLOPs equivalent of about 25 or more 486s. The bar is raised
- >every few months, once or twice a year. Competition between the companies
- >is FIERCE.
-
- Thanks for providing a ballpark for comparisons, but apparently Mr. Cogswell
- has all the time in the world. For myself, having brought an SGI machine
- to a crawl (4GX? Don't remember the model) doing molecular modeling, I
- suspect that I would not be happy with the performance of NT with SGI -GL
- in software on a 486.
- --
- Tom Hatton
- hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
- (415)-476-8693
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