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From: Christian Aubert <chris@megatoon.com>
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Subject: Re: Resasons for SGI?
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Scott Sanders wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I was considering the purchase of an SGI Indy to to LightWave work. So
> far everything I have heard has stated that the PC is a better platform for
> LW. My question is, is ther ANY reason, ANY what so ever to float the cost
> and run LW on an Indy?
It makes sense if you *need* to run some other SGI specific software,
such as Alias. Otherwise, a Dec Alpha running Windows NT is probably the
best price/performance ratio you can get for LightWave work.