[geeks] Silicon Graphics 4d/480VGX (for trade!)

[Ryan]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:09:42AM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> 
>>jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:
>>
>>
>>>Sigh.  Things like this make my consider renting a storage locker.
>>>SMP r3ks are just so cool (remeber, I'm the one who thinks that R3Ks
>>>are far cooler than any other CPU SGI has released).
>>
>>Why do you like the R3000s so much?
> 
>  
> Despite there short comings, I think they are an elegent and simple
> risc architecture.  While Sparcs are pretty cool to, I think r3ks are
> more elegent.  Perhaps I'm delusional, and perhaps there is no good

Elegant meaning? What technical reason makes them superior in your mind?


> reason.  I also really love 68ks, but then, lots of people love those.
> 
> BTW, someone is sending me a ATTO SE 4D card (fast wide differential
> scsi II).  I plan to drop it in my 840av, and look into seeing how far
> I can push the internal video capture without using compression.  With
> only 1 fast wide bus, we won't have enough bandwidth for 8bit RGB, but
> if I can get the thing to convert to YUV 4:1:1 (the same used by DV,
> except DV also adds compression and uses a 720x460 resolution instead
> of 640x480) on the fly (should be much harder than some of the other
> real time processing the 840av would do using the DSP), then it should
> work nicely.