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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Animation in Engineering
Message-ID: <00671581385@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 91 22:23:05 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.185903.20701@ariel.unm.edu>
Organization: Eric's Amiga 2000 @ Home
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From article <1991Apr11.185903.20701@ariel.unm.edu>, by nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham):
> How much money are we talking about?  ...for SGI?

EXPENSIVE. I don't know how much the IBM add-on board costs, but it isn't cheap.

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

SGI's stuff makes the Amiga blitter look like a stone knife. A SGI
workstation can display more 3-D vectors in a second than the Amiga can
even dream of. In resolutions that make Amiga resolutions look silly.

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

About the only thing that the Amiga has to offer is a fast 32-bit bus. SGI
already has that on their workstations. The only reason they released a
board for the IBM PC is because so many people refuse to give up their IBM
PC's in order to have a REAL workstation on their desk.

>>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.
> thousands of dollars.  You could bundle the softare with an Amiga.

Not hardly!

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