Xref: utzoo comp.graphics:15801 comp.windows.x:32340 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!rex!ames!sgi!shinobu!odin!westworld.esd.sgi.com!erik From: erik@westworld.esd.sgi.com (Erik Fortune) Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Graphics workstation for computational medical modeling Message-ID: <1991Feb6.032324.26144@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 6 Feb 91 03:23:24 GMT References: <1991Feb3.161604@cs.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: erik@westworld.esd.sgi.com (Erik Fortune) Followup-To: comp.graphics,comp.windows.x Distribution: na Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. Lines: 35 (Apologies if you see this twice -- I'm getting strange messages from news about my last attempt to post) In article <1991Feb3.161604@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, okeefe@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Paul O'Keefe) writes: >The bottom line: the SPARCSStation and DECstation are general >pupose techinal workstations. Silicon Graphics makes 3D true color >workstaions with special hardware for fast rendering and interactive >3D graphics. They solve different problems and carry different prices. First off, the prices you quote are stale (at least). I don't think we even sell 240's any more. Suggesting that someone buy Sun over SGI because a SPARCStation costs less than a 380VGX is sort of like suggesting that they buy a Sun instead of a DECstation because a VAX 9000 (mainframe sized vax) is a lot more expensive than a SPARCStation. SGI offers a wide range of machines, from the $5,900 16 mip data station (no graphics) to the $204,000 380 VGX (8 33mhz R3000's, 234 mips, 1 million triangles/second). Between the low end and the high end are a wide variety of processor and graphics options. SGI makes general purpose technical workstations, high-performance 3D graphics workstations and supercomputers. Please don't dismiss SGI as too expensive without at least looking at our machines; I think you'll be surprised by the breadth, performance, and (lower than expected, oftern lower than competitors) price of SGI systems. -- Erik Disclaimer: I am an SGI employee, but I'm speaking for myself. I don't praise SGI machines because I'm an SGI employee -- I came to work here because I think SGI builds great systems.