Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Martin Spott writes: > >>To explain what Erik's talking about: You don't get an appropriate video >>card that you can use in an SGI for just $50. 2x 4 MByte Texture RAM to >>upgrade an Octane SSI to MXI cost more than $1000 - and you can't use >>FlightGear's textured scenerey without TRAM .... >> > > Well in that case you are probably then better off just taking that > $1000 and buying a modern PC which for most applications will probably > beat the socks off the Octane anyways. > > In my last job we ran a simulator using an old SGI Onyx. We could buy > 3 very high end PC's every year for what we paid in yearly hardware > support contract costs. And each of those 3 PC's individually would > beat the socks off the onyx. > > I like sgi, I wish they were doing better as a company. But, > unfortunately I just don't see a lot of advantage in buying their > hardware these days, and there are very few applications these days > that run on sgi only. There are still a few uses where sgi makes the > most sense, but these are getting fewer and fewer.
So you're basically saying I am wasting my time ... I doubt that the 40 people downloading FlightGear 0.7.7 each month could be conviced to use crappy PC hardware just because it's cheap. I realy don't like that attitude and prefer to leave the hardware choice to everyone who wishes to chose. Ergo, we should stick with support for old hardware or remove the line "multi platfrom" and state the change on the website. Then at least *I* would know what to do. Erik _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
