OT Linux (RE: [rescue] OT: Stuffed Proliant?)

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:33:47PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> But, what I was thinking of when saying there is virtually no difference was 
> the Sun Enterprise 450, which takes 3 Expert3D cards and is used for cave-esque
> things apparently, for a stereo wall of up to 3840x1024.  You kinda get stiffed
> on texture ram apparently.  You would think that you have 192, but it looks 
> like it is effectively closer to 64 (kinda like a Voodoo2 SLI claims to have
> 24 megs, but is functionally closer to 16).
> 
> http://www.sun.com/desktop/visualize/sunproducts.html
> 
> I wonder what the 2D GL performance is on these higher end Sun GL accelerators.

Sorry, I thought that most GL was 3D?  There are some OpenGL commands
that let you do things in 2D like draw text but they are fast enough
even on slower systems.

./patrick