On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, christ wrote:
> the main benefit is the faster system bus, which includes access between
> ram and cpu, but also your main ram is also your texture/z-buffer/yadda yadda
> ram for video---meaning your image-bits neednt travel from ram to video-ram
> before exiting your system...and the bandwidth even in a lowly O2 is around
> 2 GB/s, over 2x as fast as the best PCI/AGP bus out there in PC-land these
> days.
Last I heard, SGI is moving to Intel based systems. It's hard to outrun
Intel's bang for the buck =( Oh well, fight the man, etc...
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