Did SGI out-Mongoose Microsoft (with RE4?)?
Harry Tanovich
break off or sabotage the alliance after SGI had invested alot into it
(someone said Microsoft would "twist the knife").
But was Fahrenheit just a ruse by SGI? Just a bait-and-switch?
Isn't it true that by year's end, SGI's crown jewel scenegraph API,
Performer, will be running on Pentium 3 quad processor Linux boxes?
And isn't it true that by year's end SGI will be releaseing RE4? Will
RE4 run on the 540 Visual Workstations?
Maybe SGI is perfectly willing to let Microsoft have Fahrenheit...
EVILjosh
> When Fahrenheit was announced everyone was waiting for Microsoft to
> break off or sabotage the alliance after SGI had invested alot into it
> (someone said Microsoft would "twist the knife").
>
> But was Fahrenheit just a ruse by SGI? Just a bait-and-switch?
>
> Isn't it true that by year's end, SGI's crown jewel scenegraph API,
> Performer, will be running on Pentium 3 quad processor Linux boxes?
And not Windoze?
> And isn't it true that by year's end SGI will be releaseing RE4? Will
> RE4 run on the 540 Visual Workstations?
>
> Maybe SGI is perfectly willing to let Microsoft have Fahrenheit...
You mean red herring style?
Yours,
Josh...
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Emmanuel Florac
>
> When Fahrenheit was announced everyone was waiting for Microsoft to
> break off or sabotage the alliance after SGI had invested alot into it
> (someone said Microsoft would "twist the knife").
>
> But was Fahrenheit just a ruse by SGI? Just a bait-and-switch?
>
> Isn't it true that by year's end, SGI's crown jewel scenegraph API,
> Performer, will be running on Pentium 3 quad processor Linux boxes?
Performer is available for windows PCs for several years... There's a
company selling it (though I don't remember the name).
> And isn't it true that by year's end SGI will be releaseing RE4? Will
> RE4 run on the 540 Visual Workstations?
Certainly not, 540 is already available and nobody never heard about
something like RE hardware in 540. Probably for Onyx2 then.
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Harry Tanovich
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> And not Windoze?
>
>
No.
Mark Lasersohn
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Can anyone confirm this (Performer for Windoze)?
Mark Lasersohn
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Harry Tanovich
GVS. Performer likes realtime OS extensions and things like frame rate schedulers
which SGI can add into Linux but which won't be in NT.
Harry Tanovich
> When Fahrenheit was announced everyone was waiting for Microsoft to
> break off or sabotage the alliance after SGI had invested alot into it
> (someone said Microsoft would "twist the knife").
>
> But was Fahrenheit just a ruse by SGI? Just a bait-and-switch?
>
> Isn't it true that by year's end, SGI's crown jewel scenegraph API,
> Performer, will be running on Pentium 3 quad processor Linux boxes?
>
> And isn't it true that by year's end SGI will be releaseing RE4? Will
> RE4 run on the 540 Visual Workstations?
>
> Maybe SGI is perfectly willing to let Microsoft have Fahrenheit...
Alastair wrote:
> This article is quite interesting since it seems to be well sourced. I
> know it's
> 'all' rumour and speculation ...
>
> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,84-40027,00.html?tt.yfin..txt.ni
>
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> Alastair
> work : alas...@psoft.co.uk
> home : alas...@calliope.demon.co.uk
Oh. I guess not.
Mike Krus
> > Performer is available for windows PCs for several years... There's a
> > company selling it (though I don't remember the name).
compatible with Performer. But it is not complete and is not distributed
as a separate product...
Mike Krus
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Emmanuel Florac
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> Mark Lasersohn wrote:
> > > Performer is available for windows PCs for several years... There's a
> > > company selling it (though I don't remember the name).
> > Can anyone confirm this (Performer for Windoze)?
> VEGA comes with a port of Performer, at least a library with an interface
> compatible with Performer. But it is not complete and is not distributed
> as a separate product...
>
I found a long time ago the website of a company selling a performer
toolkit for windows. I can't remember the name, but it was 'IRIS
performer'.