Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!sgi!wdl1!rion
From: rion@wdl1.UUCP (Rion Cassidy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-835 TruboSRX - What!
Message-ID: <4150001@wdl1.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 20:17:00 GMT
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Dan Schmidt wrote:


>Other new features in the TurboSRX include:
>
>	Quadrilateral  Mesh and Triangle Strip primitives with up to 50K
>	light-sourced polygons/second.
>
>	Pixel  Pan  &  Zoom  and  Frame   Buffer  Blending  for  imaging
>	applications.
>
>	Hardware Cursors to unload the CPU of cursor updates.
>
>	6th Order NURBS with Trimming (the SRX had 4th Order).
>
>	Point and Outline primitives for PHIGS+ compatibility.
>
>	Extended lighting support.
>
>	3-10X  overall  performance  improvement  over the SRX by simply
>	relinking  your  software.  (If  you  switch  from  polygons  to
>	meshes, however, you can get ~20X performance.)

What are meshes and how easy is it to switch to them?

We are considering purchasing either an SGI 4D/70GT or an HP 835
TurboSRX; any comments on the difference in graphics performance?  I
know SGI's hardware is no where near as reliable, but my boss keeps
insisting that SGI is still far and away the graphics performance
leader.  What can I tell him?

Rion Cassidy							
Ford Aerospace
rion@ford-wdl1.arpa
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