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To: vincent bilotta who wrote (4317)	2/6/1998 8:55:00 AM
From: Alexis Cousein	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

>Alexis, in the US and Europe according to users, 4 megs of texture >ram is $5K and since SGI is sole source, there's no discount. 4.5K$, actually, if I'm not mistaken, and that's list price. Which makes it about 20% of the list price of the cheapest Octane. that's what I mean by 'not that much'. You may think that's much for 4MB of memory, but it's actually quite sophisticated (based on RAMBUS if I'm not mistaken), and is one of the reasons the Octane is unsurpassed wrt textured fills (and it's texture cache; the Octane is pretty good at downloading textures from main memory). As for discounts, those are commercial discussions, and you'll obviously be in a better position to discuss discounts if you tie the purchase of the texture memory to that of an Octane, than if you buy the Octane then want to buy the texture memory. I would certainly expect anyone to be able to get the same level of discount on the TRAM as on the base machine, if bought together. For occasional use of texture, though, the Octane does do texturing from host memory. It is a lot slower, as you've indicated. Mind you, I'm not saying that all SGI salesfolk are always perfect in educating their customers to make the correct choices ;). I try to help them, and even I am fallible.