27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
2:33 p.m.
A guy I went
to college with went out to work at DEC in Boston testing high
end Alpha workstations and video cards. He sent screenshots of Quake 2
running on NT Alpha with ridiculously high end video cards and, at the time,
insane resolutions (SXGA I believe) They'd run the Q2 benchmark for days on
end to stress-test the cards. IIRC he claimed Q2 was an ideal burn-in tool,
as few professional apps used nearly every OpenGL feature simultaneously,
most were optimized to use a few specific calls at once.
IBM ported Quake to AIX for exactly the same reasons....