Moshe Nissim (moshe++at++orad.co.il)
Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:00:39 -0700
There seems to be a crucial difference between available visuals
in the same pixel depth (medium) between Onyx2 Reality and
InfiniteReality.
Although medium pixels (512 bits) should be able to support visuals with
both multisampling and alpha (findvis 'rgba && ms') , as they indeed do
on iR,
such visuals do not exist on Onyx2 Reality.
Again, this is with the SAME pixel depth in both architectures.
I am aware of the fact that the RM8 has 1/2 the fb memory, that it
supports
only 4 samples (not 8), that it is slower, and cheapr. All these things
are in the specs. The specs also advertise RGBA-48-bit color, which is
indeed
available but NOT with multi-sampling.
Any comments?
Bye,
Moshe Nissim
Orad Hi-Tec Systems
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