[geeks] octane personal video

[Kurt Huhn]

Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:

> > It's all very specialized stuff, and only SGI really uses it in this
> > context.
> 
> HM! That's a pitty. I dislike "closed" hardware. Reason I won't buy a 
> winmodem or nVidia video card.
> 

It's not that it's closed, really.  It's just that so very few people
understand it well enough to write code for it.  SGI can't exactly
expend resources in this arena either - and exposing the inner workings
of their flagship workstation could leave themselves open to trade
secrets being stolen.

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