Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!uupsi!sunic!nuug!ifi!hhe From: hhe@ifi.uio.no (Hans Henrik Eriksen) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization Subject: Re: info needed Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 22:54:04 GMT References: <1990Nov8.173804.5775@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: hhe@ifi.uio.no (Hans Henrik Eriksen) Organization: University in Oslo, Department of Informatics Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: falketind.ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: andyrose@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Andy Rose)'s message of 8 Nov 90 17:38:04 GMT Originator: hhe@falketind.ifi.uio.no In article <1990Nov8.173804.5775@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> andyrose@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Andy Rose) writes: > I will or could someone dispel or clarify some of the following: > > a. Sun will or has introduced a graphics workstation with as much > vector processing speed as personal iris. cheap. Monday this week the Sparcstation 2 was released in Norway. The Ss 2 GT draws Gouraud-shaded Z-buffered 100-pixel triangles at a rate of 100.000/sec (PHIGS) on a 24-bit double-buffered display. 10-pixel vectors are 500.000/sec and 300.000/sec (anti-aliased). List price in Norway is about $80.000 (probably cheaper in the US)... > d. AVS 3 will run under X windows (which would be super). We've got AVS 2.1 Beta? for DECwindows, but no version 3... Hans Henrik Eriksen hhe@ifi.uio.no