Steve Baker (steve++at++mred.bgm.link.com)
Sun, 7 Apr 96 23:15:05 -0500
"InfiniteReality can concurrently
process geometry, imaging and video
data 100 times faster than its prede-
cessor, Onyx RealityEngine2, also
from SGI."
...well, I know the new box is *FAST* but 100 times as fast?!?
So, I put it down to the fact that a "SunExpert" might not
also be an SGI Expert - or maybe it was a misprint.
Well, imagine my surprise when today someone showed me an article in
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 3-9th April, page 24 in which it says:-
"SGI says that InfiniteReality sys-
tems are up to 100 times faster than
the Onyx RealityEngine2 machines
which they supersede."
This seems like too much of a coincidence. The remainder of each
article contains information that is not mentioned in the other - so
it's unlikely that one journalist copied it from the other.
Exactly which operations are 100 times faster? I can think of some that
might be 10 times faster...
Well, if this is a misprint in some SGI press release, it ought to be
corrected *soon*. I have customers out there who read FLIGHT magazine
and are going to be wondering why we are charging them so much money
for their InfiniteReality-based simulators!
Steve Baker 817-323-1361 (Vox-Lab)
Hughes Training Inc. 817-695-8776 (Vox-Office/vMail)
2200 Arlington Downs Road 817-695-4028 (Fax)
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