[rescue] Wow, 30k Graphics Card From Sun

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 04:13:12PM -0400, George Adkins wrote:
> That's because the Indigo2 was a better machine.
> The fact that an o2 can render with hundreds of megs of textures better than 
> the Octane is an accident of it's cheesy design.
> 
> What good is hundreds of megs of main memory taken out of use to store 
> textures anyway when the 3d performance is nonexistent/poor?

To be honest, my question for the O2-savvy among us concerns its
memory architecture in terms of SQL database performance.  Would it be
faster in any way due to its design over say a R10K based I2?

./patrick