Erik Hofman wrote: > > 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.
Well, the modern SGIs shouldn't have trouble running a recent version of FGFS. So we run on a SGI. You don't expect a software rendering 386 to give decent frame rates, do you? But we could offer a minimum recomended SGI configuration. CU, Christian PS: Is there a way to install FGFS (+SimGear + PLIB + GLUT) on a Indy w/o root privileges? I'd like to try it at the university. -- The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague Whoever that is/was; (c) by Douglas Adams would have been better... _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
