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>>But you are right about new boards. With new chips like GLint and REAL3D coming out real time rendering with texture maps will be here soon. It will make things difficult for those who try to justify the price of an SGI. (althought SGI will always have some new gimick upp their sleve<< SGI is a different world Alan. I had a long talk with the Evens & Sutherland rep recently, their Freedom board will do around 300k polygons per sec, and you can add up to a 16 meg simm for texture mapping. A SGI reality2engine is rated at around 2 million polygons and 358 million textured and shaded pixells per second mind you the prices are not quite the same, still this year I am going to get a _REALLY_ big Xmass tree just in case Santa decides to call. Ken