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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 24 Mar 1997 05:59:58 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable John Whitley
wrote on 20 Mar (in article <5gq16g$6d1@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>):
=etc, etc.) SGI "invented" the GL, which formed the core of OpenGL for
=good reason -- they did good work on designing GL in the first place.
Thanks.
=The point is that OpenGL support on PC-level hardware has some
=problems right now... this is natural as the market for this level of
=3D graphics has only just become reality in the PC world.
Yes. Still, graphics support is a secondary issue comparing OSes.
>>=You can pick up a nice O2 for $6,000.
>>
>>The 1G SCSI drive from SGI costs ~1000 dollars... Upgrades would be
>>too expensive...
=Get a clue and buy from a third party vendor like everyone else in the
=world.
I'm happy with the noname intel box which is still cheaper then anything
you can get from the most discounting dealer. Thanks for a clue.
>>That's what we did. And it had Irix 5.2. And SGI will not give us patches,
>>as we purchased it second hand without "service contract".
=So your last two comments indicate that you didn't know enough to do
=your homework before buying and/or that you didn't factor in the cost
=of the right level of support contract for your needs. And I'm
=supposed to be sympathetic...?
Please, do not be. I was talking about SGI's fix policy -- you have
to pay for the correction of their errors (and someone has also
mentioned this here). Call that a ``service-contract'' or anything
else. I agree to pay for new features, but not for fixes of the
problems, which are not supposed to exist.
=OTOH, this doesn't mean that SGI/IRIX don't have their domains of
=dominance. Simply put, serving news is not the sum-in-toto of the
=computing experience. Maybe the words "visual computing" will ring a
=bell somewhere...
Yes, they do. I wonder what you personaly put into the marketing
term "visual computing", though?
-mi
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