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- From: rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Crimson vs. R4000 Indigo. What's the difference?
- Keywords: Crimson, Indigo, R4000
- Message-ID: <ok8o67s@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 22:04:59 GMT
- References: <g!4mhnf.jchauvin@netcom.com> <ogn7f5g@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <oj4pqts@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- In article <oj4pqts@zuni.esd.sgi.com> jeffs@soul.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
- >In <ogn7f5g@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >>In <g!4mhnf.jchauvin@netcom.com> jchauvin@netcom.com (John H. Chauvin) writes:
- >>| Can someone summaries the differences between a SGI Crimson and a R4000
- >>| Indigo workstation assuming they both have the Elan graphics package.
- >
- >>Expandability and I/O.
- >
- >The Crimson can also hold the high-end graphics boards,
- >which for a fully loaded Reality Engine is 5 large boards.
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- The maximum is actually six.
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- The Reality Engine comes in three sizes: three, four or six 9U boards.
- Each set contains one Geometry Engine board and one Video/Analog Board.
- You can have one, two or four Raster Processor Boards depending on the
- Reality Engine features desired.
-
- ...robert
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