Hi There!
An Indy for instance, is it much faster then a similarly clocked
PowerMac? What about an Indigo 2 IMPACT 10000. Does that blow most PMs
away?
Hmm, never used MACs of that generation. Graphics performance of
the SGIs was awesome for its day. Still using an Octane (2*R12k)
from time to time with old software I compiled for it and very
impressive still is the responsiveness of the OS: Most other OSes
still today let you feet that there is load on the CPU. With the
SGIs you do not feel that so much if working in a terminal for
example.
I also have got dual monitors, video compressor and crystal
eyes on the Octane ;-)
Octane greatly improved in memory performance (well above GB/s) over
the earlier SGIs and I lot of other competitors...
Unfortunately my maxed out Indigo2 suffered a maniboard failure
recently and does not boot any more...
Best wishes and merry Xmas,
Erik.
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