Power Series

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Thu Dec 27 09:54:25 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf_at_concentric.net]

> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:

> > Well, on one hand, yes, but on the other hand, I like my
> Indigo 2 Elan with
> > no texture memory just fine. I'm also considering trying

> I didn't know you had another SGI box ;)

Yep.

> A couple people I've known who ended up with old SGI gear thought they
> were going to create some kind of fancy animations with this kind of
> hardware, so I never know what to think now.

Depends on what you mean by "fancy animations." It will probably do better
out of the box than most new peesees depending on what you'd like to
animate. (and whether it requires texture memory, of course) Both of my
SGIs, for instance, have analog video in/out, which is a start. On the
other hand, you can't really do a good animation with anything "out of the
box." It usually takes a lot of strange stuff.

The graphical prowess of the machines is still something, though. For
instance, the ability of the machine to provide individual color-maps for
different windows on the screen, without the nasty palette-flashing that's
seen in xfree86 on an intel box (for example) when you try the same...

> Sounds like you at least have an original VGX chassis then.
> It is possible
> someone upgraded some of the boards, but the only way you'll
> be able to
> tell is to pull them and cross reference the part numbers.

I'm thinking about doing that. The label on top of the chassis actually
says "4D/440 VGX" or something to that effect.

Regards,

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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