Playing with Big Boys
29-Oct-93 02:07:21
Sb: #63997-Playing with Big Boys
Fm: Schreiber Instruments 73362,466
To: Gus Grubba 70673,1605
The diffences in the hardware is reflected in the hardware cost
and performance. The workstations have dedicated swap partitions
running full 32 bit and processor speed. They also have custom
engineered graphics boards which are optimized with the processor.
They also may use multiple processors.
Windows NT brings (I have it running just fine) an operating
system which will let hardware developers bring some of these
features to the PC. As PC hardware evolves we should find a more
level playing field. With the R3 network rendering, a network of PC's
can easily be more productive then the workstations of compairable
cost.
Note, as Gary quoted 25,000 copies of 3D Studio, that is more
copies then Softimage + Wavefront + TDI + Alias + …