New IBM Graphics Workstations
Christoph Ramshorn
ra at sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de
Tue Jul 31 17:17:12 AEST 1990
dhinds at portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
> The IBM RS6000's have several levels of graphics support. The 8-bit
>color 3D graphics level is quoted as doing 90K 3D vectors/sec, and 10K 3D
>polygons/sec.
This level of perfomance comes also with 24-bit color and 24-bit z-buffer.
It is based on SGI chips and runs under GL - comparable to a 4D20/25. It is
> The 24-bit color 3D graphics system is quoted as doing
>990K 3D vectors/sec and 120K 3D polygons/sec.
This is the graphics of the 730 model. It is IBM hardware and
does NOT run with GL.
Christoph Ramshorn, Geologisches Institut, Albertstr.23-B
D-7800 Freiburg i.Br., West Germany
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