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- From: kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Vivid 24 graphics card
- Message-ID: <94532@bu.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 22:09:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.002149.15986@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1992Aug15.003630.23701@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Aug15.212812.17639@sol.UVic.CA>
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- In article <1992Aug15.212812.17639@sol.UVic.CA> bdonison@bigbird.UVic.CA (Only AMIGA!) writes:
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- >The SGI is NOT just a 24 bit graphics system, it is a 32 bit system, and I
- >think some have 48 bit graphics, (I don't have the info here at the moment).
- >Comparing any Amiga system to a high end SGI system is pointless, but comparing
- >it to the low end SGI machines does more for Amiga.
- >
- >For the money, the Amiga with a graphics board looks good compared to
- >an SGI IRIS for example.
- >
- >Brad
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- IRIS? Not the IRIS's I'm familiar with... Perhaps a 24-bit
- Indigo is a better comparison. Still, if your talking in the $10,000
- range would you rather have a RISC-based Unix workstation, or a 68040
- based high-end Amiga? Also, keep in mind that those SGI's have all
- those fancy little geometry engines that let you do things like
- real-time Gouraud shading... if you're avoiding "apples to oranges"
- comparisons, be sure to realize the limits and potentials of both
- machines.
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- Keith (yes, I do own an Amiga)
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