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To: Stuart C Hall who wrote (5294)7/14/1998 3:19:00 AM
From: Mark Carson  Respond to of 16960
 
They are generally 10k plus and these cards are specifically made to accelerate these special CAD programs. I also believe in most cases they are proprietary. >>

Ok - free marketing. I do large account sales for Tri-Star Computers (http://www.tristar.com). We sell high-end NT workstations for the A/E/C and Mech Design market. We do a lot of Elsa, Dynamic Pictures and Accelgraphics.

$10K - not any more. A 96 Meg card is under $2,000 these days.
Proprietary? Not really, mostly based on Heidi and Open GL. Optimized for for MCAD but they should run Quake just fine.

Mark



To: Stuart C Hall who wrote (5294)7/14/1998 4:37:00 AM
From: Pierre-X  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 16960
 
CAD is certainly no killer 3D app. Small niche market. Now and forever.

You ask why TDFX hasn't conquered the Poser/Bryce/3DS/Lightwave/trueSpace et al. domain? Can't accelerate in a window.

Why did ELSA pick up Banshee?

It can accelerate in a window. Fast, and cheap. 3D Labs is about to get murdered in this space by 3DFX and nVidia, among others.

JMO


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