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Just for the record . . . The IRIS Indigo is a wicked fast machine. For price/performance for many CPU-intensive applications, like rendering, it wins over most competitors. It rates at 30 MIps, 6MFLOPS, and delivers it. Diskless, its $8K. 16 MB & 420 MB disk takes you to something…
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3DS on IrisVision Board
Message #9557
Tough question – The latest release of the software driver for the IRIS Vision board does support 3DS. The support and performance for some parts of 3DS was excellent: other functions it was, as Gary says, "a $6K VGA board". I don't really remember the details. For the inside scoop,…
sparc2/bm-acad
Message #33933
Doug, I've been saving your message for awhile. It seems you have looked at the performance question between platforms a bit. Autodesk will soon release R11 on the IRIS Indigo RISC PC and we're pretty excited aobut the performance of AutoCAD on it. We've found that MIPS is a poor…
#Sun vs. DOS
Message #33932
Hi, I would be very interested in finding out what the information that you received on the Sun vs. Dos Question. We are just in the process of doing these benchmarks but our focus in comparing AutoCAD on the IRIS Indigo vs. AutoCAD elsewhere and I'm interested in what benchmarks…
Here's a tough question: Will AutoCAD's R12 Release for Windows NT take advantage of the IRIS GL? john edelson sgi ********** Greg – AutoCAD Release 11 for SCO Unix is in the works. Actually, I haven't been keeping careful track; it may be available now. I'm not sure if we've…
IRIS Indigo Announcement
Message #33928
Are you coming to NDES next week? We are doing special press briefings and I believe, there's an hour reserved with Cadalyst. john edelson 415 335-1532
#Users Group
Message #33927
Malcom, Thanks – I have been monitoring the Autodesk forum for quite awhile and its only recently, as the release date draws near, that I've started writing. I've noticed your notes a number of times and its been part of the very impressive "open communication" that marks the Autodesk community.…
Well, wrong forum but right question. AutoCAD R11 for the Silicon Graphics IRIS was announced and demoed last July at the IRIS Indigo introduction. The product has also been demoed at the Daratech dealers conference, AutoFACT, and in various countries and customer sites this fall. At each showing, people are…