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In article <1993Jan28.152947.27227@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Frank.Taylor@launchpad.unc.edu (Frank Taylor) writes:
> According to what I've seen, the new XZ graphics option is twice the
> performance of the old XS24 and will run in a standard Indigo.  Does
> the Z refer to a standard Z-buffer?  What is the cost?  Did the XS24
> and Elan board costs drop?

> I have been waiting for SGI to release a decent low-cost machine with
> a decent low-cost 24-bit Zbuffer option.  I want a machine I can
> buy for home use that costs less than $10K list.  Has this happened?

  The short answer is no.  The XZ board appears to be exactly the same
as the XS24Z and Elan, but with two geometry engines(XS24 has 1, Elan has 4).
Its cost is between XS24Z and Elan, and it comes with the bit-planes and
z-buffer standard.  System cost with a 400meg disk, 16meg RAM, and 19 inch
monitor is quoted in the press release as $23k.

  It doesn't appear that XS and Elan have had any drastic price reductions.

	--Jeff

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In article <1993Jan28.183132.3189@microunity.com> jsw@microunity.com (Jeff Weinstein) writes:
>
>> I have been waiting for SGI to release a decent low-cost machine with
>> a decent low-cost 24-bit Zbuffer option.  I want a machine I can
>> buy for home use that costs less than $10K list.  Has this happened?
>
>  The short answer is no.  The XZ board appears to be exactly the same
>as the XS24Z and Elan, but with two geometry engines(XS24 has 1, Elan has 4).
>Its cost is between XS24Z and Elan, and it comes with the bit-planes and
>z-buffer standard.  System cost with a 400meg disk, 16meg RAM, and 19 inch
>monitor is quoted in the press release as $23k.
>
>  It doesn't appear that XS and Elan have had any drastic price reductions.
>
Bummer.  I bet there's going to be some serious competition in the
low-cost 3D graphics arena by the time SGI finally gets something out.  And
that competition will very likely have OpenGL, so it won't just be idle
competition.

So, does the new Indigo^2 Extreme graphics board simply have the same
architecture but with 8 geometry engines?  What are the specs on Extreme?
Can it do anything that an Elan can't do?  Hardware textures?

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