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To: LauA who wrote (5273)	10/28/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Guys, this is email I sent and it conveys what I think is another problem for SGI. Dear Craig, I enjoyed reading your article/interview with the Linus. This is my take on why cad and cae companies were in the past not keen to port to linux and even have plans to port to borg virus strain nt-us-crash-all-the-time-us. The software engineers at these companies know the equations of their respective applications. They are used to having a vendor give them an integrated gui lib/drivers for their hardware. Creating your own is a major project. In the chaotic Intel world their are a millions (well hundreds) video cards and each has manufacture supported drivers for NT and other borg virues. But only shareware drivers for linux. Also the video cards, even high end cards like matrox, number nine formerly did not have the punch of workstation proprietary hardware. The current generation of cards do but only using hardware aware drivers. These hardware aware drivers were only available for NT. But this week I recieved the long awaited beta openGL hardware acceleratedX for linux. This driver is for the $200 16 meg number nine revolution 4 card and give a reported 40X improvement over software implemented opengl in linux. This is the product that makes it 1/2 to 1/10 less difficult to port complex cae and cad graphics oriented programs to linux. I've been using linux at home and at work for over 5 years. I just recently convinced lead engineers where I work to use linux instead of NT in a 100 to 500 million dollar project. Last month our IT department anounced that they were going to start supporting linux. I've used all major distributions of linux and they are all not bad. Anyway above is my take and the belief that unix workstation vendor are in for difficult times. Linux on any set of hardware give 3db performance improvement over all borg viruses. Sincerely Tom Watson. PS. If you all sgi threader are interested in following where the software engineering technology of the 21th century is going. Well start following the SI Linux thread. And even if corel if giving away word 8 for linux, I still rate applix as market out perform. Will K7 and 200 MHz boards smoke current R10000's. .5 performance considering the cost is smokin. But I think it's better than that.