24 Aug
2004
24 Aug
'04
5:12 a.m.
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:19:32PM -0500, Tom Hudson wrote:
You know, I was at Intel's press conference where
they rolled out the
I860, and I couldn't wait to rewrite come of my graphics code for it. I
remember thinking how it was going to revolutionize the computer
graphics industry. Then it kind of dropped off the map. Shows what I know.
I don't know what a revolution requires, but the use of those chips in
the SGI RE and RE2 boardsets certainly has left a large impact on many
of us.
I loved the Onyx RE2 I spent many hours on. The newer less than
10y.o. SGI stuff I currently use is also nice (and probably faster for
many things), but it just isn't the same.