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To: Jerry Whlan who wrote (5767)	2/23/1999 9:57:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

The Xi graphic openGL tech demo does support the flat panel. Tom Watson tosiwme Wanna see a side by side of a 5x7 xterm.... home.earthlink.net The jpeg togetm.jpg below shows side by side a photo of and xterm with a 5x7 font. The SW1600 has a resolution of 1600x1024 and the Hitachi 21" monitor was operating at a resolution of 1600x1200. The 5x7 xterm on the Hitachi is a shade under 4" wide while the 5x7 xterm on the SW1600 is 3 7/8" This side by side comparison gives an idea of the incredable sharpness of the SW1600. There is a clear plastic scale shown in each photo to assist in gaging the screen shots. I've looked at 5x7 xterms on several 21" 20" and 17" monitors. Only a 21" Cornerstone operating at 1800x1400 was somewhat close in sharpness.

To: Jerry Whlan who wrote (5767)	2/24/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: Kirk Vanden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

A few of you have posted about not being able to set up demos of the VPC. We already had SGI bring buy a VPC for general demos. A local re-seller is bringing one out on Friday so we can sit down and play with it in a more private session. I'll post my experiences after I see it in action. And I'll ask about any PCI bus problems. I decided the Xeons were just not powerful enough and linux would not be along soon enough so today I ordered an Octane with the new 300 Mhz R12000 with 2 MB of CPU cache. I put 1.5 Gigabytes of memory in it and twin 9 GB 10,000 RPM SCSI drives. Passed up a flat panel for the Sony 24 inch monitor. Sorry to see it has lower ratings than the HP does though. But we have too much invested in SGI software to switch platforms.