Hi Simon-

A very interesting article, thanks for sending it along.

Another nail in SGI's coffin, I'm afraid. And, I'm sure Microsoft will generate it's usual share of animosity with this.

Not sure I am ready to believe that, with SGI's low end machines going the Linux way and using NVidia chipsets
in the future for graphics - this looks quite impressive performance wise. In my opinion, it was a mistake
to compete with other Intel based  machines in the first place under Windows. In fact, the SGI rep at the Volumizer symposium at Vis. 99 agreed with this. SGI was trying to do something in which it had no idea.

 

We have talked about adding a Direct3D renderer, it doesn't appear horribly hard to do. But this is definitely a topic that needs discussion.

Will
 
 

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