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From: rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Idea for a graphics board
Keywords: 24 bit
Message-ID: <20151@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 20:34:30 GMT
References: <1991May28.191019.13406@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Jun4.184306.6734@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
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In article <1991Jun4.184306.6734@ucunix.san.uc.edu> reher@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Jay R. Reher) writes:
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>	Well such beasts do exist in the newer graphic workstations put out
>by IBM, Silicon Graphics etc..  Silicon Graphics has one that is 1280 X 1024 X
>24 bit, plus does 3 million gourad shades polygons per second and includes z-
>buffering etc.. I am not sure of the bus size tho.. And by the way these bad

Not quite, the top-of-the-line SG does ~1 million flat shaded
polygons (50 pixel tirangles) per sec.

>boys are not cheap.  If you are wanting one for the amiga, have fun designing 
>it....
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Not cheap?  Doesn't everybody have $100,000 to buy a graphics board
for their own file servers (many K $$)? :)

Rick

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