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- From: planting@cs.pitt.edu (Harry Plantinga)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH 1992 info request
- Message-ID: <planting-150892135927@calvin.cs.pitt.edu>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 18:07:13 GMT
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- In article <2A856D7E.16950@noiro.acs.uci.edu>, fredv@hydra.acs.uci.edu
- (Fred Velijanian) wrote:
- >
- > I'd like to hear from anyone who attended Siggraph 1992 a few weeks
- > ago, especially what DEC had to show in their booth? I heard they
- > were supposed to show ALPHA systems. If so which graphics boards
- > were present and what applications were running? Any details on
- > DEC's PEX demos and interoperability with other vendors would be
- > appreciated too.
-
- Supposedly there were three Alpha workstations there; I think they were 150
- MHz but I'm not certain.
-
- I only saw one of them. It was making mandelbrot pictures, "racing" with
- three other architectures on the same screen. The closest competitor was
- an HP 730, which seemed to be generating pictures at about half the speed.
-
- Since HP 730's have been available for about a year and Alpha workstations
- won't be available for a few months, DEC appears to have caught up with HP
- but not really surpassed them (assuming HP isn't standing still).
-