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- From: wjbaird@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Warren Baird)
- Subject: Re: A4000 or SGI for video
- Message-ID: <C1HsGv.HFI@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1993Jan18.004109.29688@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <dmkasten.05b9@redorc.chi.il.us>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:02:54 GMT
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- In article <dmkasten.05b9@redorc.chi.il.us> dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag) writes:
- >
- >Considering you can buy a board for an Amiga for $9000 that will give you 2x
- >the power of a $200,000 SGI Workstation, yup, id say the Amiga is a wise
- >decision..
-
- I'd like to see some numbers to back this up... The IRIS Indigo
- workstation sells for roughly $10,000 (I have a price sheet at work,
- but not with me), and pack a hell of a punch... I would be really
- surprised if a 4000 is twice as fast as the Indigo R4000 at anything...
-
- I've got price sheets with all the relevant data for the various
- options, and I can post it if anyone is interested...
-
- I'd really like to see similar data for the 4000. Does anyone know
- how many flat shaded polys per second you can get? Will the Amiga do
- hardware or software Gouraud shading???
-
- The figures for the lowest end of the Indigo (without any graphics
- accelators) was around 100,000 flat shaded polys per second (I
- think... Don't quote me on this until I check the info sheets).
-
- >
- >
- >
- > +-----------------------------------------------------------+
- > |o| I think, therefore I Amiga. |=|
- > +-----------------------------------------------------------+
- > | Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | Amiga 2000HD/5 with a tiny |
- > | dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us | little 21" Toshiba monitor.|
- > +------------------------------+----------------------------+
-
-
- (P.S. Please don't flame me for being "anti-Amiga". I love my 2000,
- but I'm realistic enough to realize that it may not be the best
- possible graphics box...)
-
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