[rescue] octane question

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Jan 18 12:54:18 CST 2002


On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:33:02PM +0100, roosmcd at dds.nl wrote:

> http://www.sgievents.com/developer2002/
> 
>  Quote:
> "The grand-prize winner, as decided by attendees, will receive an SGI next-
> generation high-performance, high-bandwidth IRIX visual workstation."
> 
>There is going to be a new workstation, so prices are expected to drop. I was 
>also thinking about buying an Octane, but am going to wait for a while to see 
>what happens.

Probably (hopefully) a replacement for the O2+ at least.  That platform needs
some serious help.  Sure, the texturing abilities are cool, but the bandwidth
and expenadability are there anymore, not to mention the annoying 1 gig ram
limit.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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