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To: vincent bilotta who wrote (1369)	5/12/1997 1:38:00 PM
From: Alexis Cousein	of 14451

>I'm yelling to make shure that marketing driven limits on desktop >graphics are a thing of the past. Stop yelling, Vincent; you've been doing it for tens of posts. There are no marketing driven limits on gfx on our boxes that I know of. The entry point of Onyx MXI and Onyx Reality are really not so big a step from Octane MXI. (The ratio in my price list for one-CPU machines is of the order of 2 for Octane MXI to Onyx Reality; in fact, Reality Stations are even cheaper than these, but the RE2 pipe is still GL-based). Yes, you don't want it inot your bedroom except on very cold winter evenings ;). It's not like it doesn't take years to fit an iR pipe onto something smaller, and you're making it sound as if the only issue for doing these kinds of things were of a `marketing' nature. As for the Octane, it is not limited to 4MB of textures in the same way e.g. an Intergraph with 4MB of textures is (nor is the speed of the texture memory/caches comparable, which shows in the fill rate comparisons). It's a lot faster when it download textures in the texture caches than the Indigo2 ever was, and the iron is even capable of doing it faster than the current OS does, and I'm pretty sure SGI's working on making that software side of things even better in the future... Sure, there'll eventually be a new gfx board for the Octane; after all, SGI designs the architecture of each machine to leave lots of headroom. Just give SGI a chance, will you. SGI almost never introduced a new architecture and new gfx at the same time (I haven't heard many people yell because the Onyx2 still uses the same ol' Infinite Reality gfx [yet] ;) ). And for good reasons.

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