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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Animation in Engineering
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Date: 11 Apr 91 18:59:03 GMT
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In article <2314@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>
>It is very clear that you haven't used an SGI machine...
>
>This stuff is available on MS-DOS machines which have the SGI graphics
>engine installed in them. The local SGI user's group here in San
>Antonio was given a demo of the PC hardware last week. It is pretty
>nice. Too bad you have run MS-DOS to get it.

How much money are we talking about?  ...for SGI?

Is it really better than an Amiga where Amiga was designed for graphics with
the blitter and all?

What about a low end system that might cost much less on Amiga?

What about the potential of this with the Toaster?


>
>When asked "Why on a PC?", the SGI rep explained that their surveys
>showed that MS-DOS users stay with MS-DOS & will simply do without the
>capabilities before they would buy a SGI workstation. Thus the SGI
>graphics engine (sort-of) on a PC.



Are you sure that this WALKTHRU software used SGI?  Nothing in the add
mentioned it. (although I wondered)    

There was no mention of price for this software, but judging from other
software advertized in ENR I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't in the
thousands of dollars.  You could bundle the softare with an Amiga.


>=====================================================================
>Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
> "What will happen to our memory now that we can keep it on paper?"
>=====================================================================



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