[rescue] octane question

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Jan 18 09:49:41 CST 2002


On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:37:25AM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
> >Well, I know the SI is a single card.  I though the Octane had only 3 XIO
> >slots, but I probably am grossly mistaken.  I know that one of the V 
> >graphics
> >boards is dual headed, and that the V8 and V12 have a hardware accumulation
> >buffer (previously to have one of these you needed an Onyx grade machine or
> >a Voodoo5).
> 
> Nope, 4 XIO slots.  Which V card is dual head?  I hadn't heard this. 
> Don't all IMPACT and beyond have hardware accumulation buffers?

The agreement on a recent c.g.a.opengl thread was that it was just the onyxes,
V8 and V12 from SGI.  I've never had access to an IMPACT to test since at 
school we just have an O2 and an Onyx in the CS department.  I think 
meteorology has an Indy also.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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