From: Kimberly Neff (kimberly++at++sgi.com)
Date: 04/27/2000 10:10:36
Sorry for the delay folks. I've been out of the office for two weeks and it
has taken me some time to unbury myself.
To address Paul's questions, the IA64 machines are targeted at power users
and will typically be MP (and MP requires shared arenas). There is no
reason that I'm aware of why one IA build would be at the expense of the
other.
Performer exploits the full capabilities of the machine by its nature, but I
won't give specifics on unreleased versions of Performer without an NDA.
NDAs are available through your Sales Rep. Your Sales Rep can always
contact me for the most up-to-date Performer information if he/she doesn't
already have it.
Of course, SGI continues to place our priority on SGI hardware. After that
we'll assess non-SGI hardware. Faulty OpenGL drivers on other platforms
complicate providing support on other platforms and make it an expensive
endeavor; therefore, we have no plans for providing support on non
SGI-hardware at this time.
Thanks!
Kimberly
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Overs [mailto:hovers++at++dera.gov.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 12:17 AM
To: info-performer++at++sgi.com
Subject: the future of Mongoose
I have a few questions that I hope the Performer guys will answer.
1. I hear that Mongoose will be supporting the Itanium/IA-64/Merced
platform. Will this be at the expense of the IA-32 build.
2. Will the Itanium build be MP, and if so, will it have shared arenas.
3. 3DFX are bringing out the Voodoo4/5 with hardware antialiasing. Will this
run straight off with Performer ( the AA that is ). I am aware that Brian
Paul has just put supprt for AA in Mesa. Is this all that is necessary.
4. Is there going to be any pay/contractual support options for Performer,
especially when running on non SGI boxes.
It would be very helpful if these q's could be answered so that we can make
decisions on where to go.
Regards
Paul Hussein.
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