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Article: 128 of comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
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From: gdm2475@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
Subject: Re: Open GL the PC and LW?
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 16:36:09
Organization: Montana State University
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In article <1994Nov19.191107.78101@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, Jbtaylor@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>I am interested in opening a graphics company using LW, but I am unsure what platform
>to look at. I am torn between NT and SGI. If I went with SGI I have heard that I would
>get far faster display speed, however, I have also heard that the NT systems will be
> getting PCI video cards by the end of the year which will support 3d shading in hardware
>using Open GL, and that these may rival the mid-range SGI machines. Has anyone heard
>anything about LW support for Open GL on the SGI or NT compatible machines? Does
>anyone have any info about these accelerator cards or operating system compatibility?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Mark
Sgi's are great machines if you've got the money. Your probably a lot
better off geting a toaster system with an amiga and then using screamer net to
link to the Raptor or RaptorII or Rendersaurus to increase your speed past most
anything SGI can do. It's a fair
guess to say that screamernet is going to work on PC platform also, so you
could go that way in the future. As far as I've heard, Lightwave isn't going
to support Open GL, that's something I've never used, so I can't really comment
on it. Everything I've heard about NT machines is _BAD_, I really wouldn't go
that way until they are in the market heavily for a while, and other people
have tried it out. It would be a bad move to open a company investing in CPU's
that didn't work.
Dana McNeil
White Dwarf Productions