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0 pointstrasz6y ago0 comments

SGI was good for stuff it was made for, which was visualization and CAD. Which, in that time, meant no texturing - that one meant either an expensive hardware option, or software fallback.

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ddingus6y ago

Except for the O2. Shared memory allowed for massive textures and transforms on them at real time frame rates.

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0 pointstrasz6y ago0 comments

SGI was good for stuff it was made for, which was visualization and CAD. Which, in that time, meant no texturing - that one meant either an expensive hardware option, or software fallback.

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ddingus6y ago

Except for the O2. Shared memory allowed for massive textures and transforms on them at real time frame rates.

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