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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (4779)	4/27/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: Edward Smyth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Linux on Visual PC's Thomas A Watson wrote: >I've worked with opengl libs you mentioned. The problem is the >performance is more than 3db below SGI. Fast 3d graphics on >intel boxes needs a specialized vid card and drivers. Still >not available for linux. Also the io bandwidth of motherboards >selling at 100.00 are not quite their yet. I've heard the slot 1 >with bx chipset is getting there and no doubt slot 2 with zeon >will be another jump. I am hoping that SGI will provide the choice of Linux as well as NT for the Visual PC machines. I'm sure the Visual PC's will sell well running NT, but with a highly-optimized Linux, with graphics and maths libraries source compatable with IRIX, they could reach a large number of people who will not buy NT. Ed