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- From: Frank.Taylor@launchpad.unc.edu (Frank Taylor)
- Subject: Re: New Indigo Graphics - XZ
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.205136.10886@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:51:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.183132.3189@microunity.com> jsw@microunity.com (Jeff Weinstein) writes:
- >
- >> I have been waiting for SGI to release a decent low-cost machine with
- >> a decent low-cost 24-bit Zbuffer option. I want a machine I can
- >> buy for home use that costs less than $10K list. Has this happened?
- >
- > The short answer is no. The XZ board appears to be exactly the same
- >as the XS24Z and Elan, but with two geometry engines(XS24 has 1, Elan has 4).
- >Its cost is between XS24Z and Elan, and it comes with the bit-planes and
- >z-buffer standard. System cost with a 400meg disk, 16meg RAM, and 19 inch
- >monitor is quoted in the press release as $23k.
- >
- > It doesn't appear that XS and Elan have had any drastic price reductions.
- >
- Bummer. I bet there's going to be some serious competition in the
- low-cost 3D graphics arena by the time SGI finally gets something out. And
- that competition will very likely have OpenGL, so it won't just be idle
- competition.
-
- So, does the new Indigo^2 Extreme graphics board simply have the same
- architecture but with 8 geometry engines? What are the specs on Extreme?
- Can it do anything that an Elan can't do? Hardware textures?
-
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