From: Allen Bierbaum (allenb++at++vrac.iastate.edu)
Date: 02/20/2000 11:45:57
Angus,
I disagree. I beleive that discussion of Iris Performer as it relates
to non-sgi hardware is on-topic for this list.
This list should be an appropriate place to discuss how to achieve the
best performance & results using Iris Performer (even on non-SGI
graphics hardware).
For example if I want to ask people what modifications that have made to
their performer based applications in order to make them work better on
a Dell machine with and nvidia graphics chip, would that be inappropiate
for this forum?
I thought this forum was about how to make Iris Performer work and
perform well. I did not know that this only applies to discussions of
how to make Iris Performer work well on SGI hardware.
I do agree that the original post had a little bit too much marketing
type hype, but I assure you that many people on the list would be
interested to see what results cedric got on the wildcat boards. I
don't want to see wildcat sales people on this list promoting their
boards, but I do want to know what results people are getting with
wildcat hardware (as well as Nvidia, 3dfx, E&S, HP, etc) under Linux.
There are many people on this list that are now looking at non-sgi
hardware solutions. I think that since this is an Iris Performer list
we should be able to discuss running Iris Performer on any hardware
platforms that we chose.
This is a list about Iris Performer, and I want to hear about Iris
Performer on all hardware platforms.
What does everyone else think?
-Allen Bierbaum
Angus Dorbie wrote:
>
> Cedric GAUTIER wrote:
> >
> > PS: your signature is not up to date ... Silicon Graphics is now SGI
> > ... remember ;-)
>
> The use of Silicon Graphics is still perfectly valid, that's official.
>
> Allan is correct that discussion of and promotion of PC boards is off
> topic for this forum. You didn't merely ask the question, you repeated
> performance claims and comparrisons with an SGI product. I think SGI is
> quite liberal here with our Linux coverage and assistance with driver
> configuration for that platform but there is a limit to what is
> reasonable use of info-performer.
>
> In doing this kind of thing you threaten this forum and it's usefulness
> to us all. In addition to the irrelevance of the traffic on an already
> busy list, SGI would be insane to keep this mailing list if it were used
> frequently to distribute competitive material to our most valued and
> performance/feature oriented developer community. That's what
> info-performer represents for SGI, so please don't abuse it in the worst
> way possible.
>
> If you want to make the kind of post you made then there plenty of
> available and impartial alternative forums, some of them very good, like
> www.vis-sim.org. All we're asking is that you go there for off topic
> stuff and communicate with people who choose to participate in that kind
> of discussion, you'll probably get a better response from a more engaged
> audience.
>
> Cheers,Angus.
>
> --
> For Performer+OpenGL tutorials http://www.dorbie.com/
> My comment on the abuse of Jon Johanson's rights;
> After giving up raiding their neighboring countries the Norse men
> have taken to raiding 15 year old kids in their bedrooms. Very sad.
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