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From: jmb@patton.SGI.COM (Jim Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Hardware Support for High Speed Graphics Computations
Message-ID: <13733@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 88 16:49:14 GMT
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In article <10712@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, lui@CS.UCLA.EDU writes:
> Does anyone know about any research/papers on high speed architectures for
> computer graphics computations? For instance, DEC has recently announced
> the VaxStation 8000 and Texas Instruments has had their graphics chip out
> for a while.
> 
> 
> 	Stephen Lui
> 
> 	ARPA:  lui@cs.ucla.edu
> 	UUCP:  ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!lui

Call up Silicon Graphics and ask for the technical brief on the 4D70GT
graphics superworkstation.  First customer ship was yesterday (yes, that
means you can really get one).  100 MFlops of graphics horsepower,
10 VAXMips of compute power and 96 bitplanes (32 bits RGB and alpha
double buffered plus a 24 bit Z-buffer plus speciality planes for
window manager and hardware clipping support).  All for under $100K.

-- Jim Barton
Silicon Graphics Computing Systems    "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!"
jmb@sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb@decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb
--
Disclaimer:  Sure I'm proud of the beast!  I worked on it, after all.