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To: Alexis Cousein who wrote (1427)	5/13/1997 2:56:00 PM
From: vincent bilotta	of 14451

Alexis, i thought we resolved this yesterday. but since you ask again. the folks who write the code i use for compositing tell me that if two images can fit into the texture ram, i can expect orders of magnitude better performance than if it must be paged from ordinary memory. i work on Film size frames (1830 x 1551) and if i had enough Tram i'm told i could see what i'm doing in very near real time. this is what you get working on an Onyx. (Flame, Illusion etc) Processor wars will go on, and the field will get more crowded and confused. But if SGI doesn't show clear superior ability in it's graphics at every level,and keep upping the ante, they will not only lose the rendering market. The O2 dies as far as texturing after a few spheres. Great entry machine, not prudent for film production. Next year SGI will have an Octane II with R12K processors and graphics built for it's class, and the price will be what you'd pay now for an Octane not yet rounded out. hopefully it will have enough Tram for what people in film are doing today. then again, maybe it's just the applications i use(Alias, Matador, Amazon etc.) just arn't optimised. i just bought another 128 megs of ram (DRAM) for $800.00 do we have to wait til INTC makes Tram standard for this stuff to get accessable? Truevision sells video boards with 16 megs of VRAM for less than $10K. vincent

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