New IBM Graphics Workstations

[Christoph Ramshorn]

dhinds at portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:

>    The IBM RS6000's have several levels of graphics support.  The 8-bit
>color 3D graphics level is quoted as doing 90K 3D vectors/sec, and 10K 3D
>polygons/sec.


     This level of perfomance comes also with 24-bit color and 24-bit z-buffer.
It is based on SGI chips and runs under GL - comparable to a 4D20/25. It is

>    The 24-bit color 3D graphics system is quoted as doing
>990K 3D vectors/sec and 120K 3D polygons/sec.

     This is the graphics of the 730 model. It is IBM hardware and
does NOT run with GL.

Christoph Ramshorn, Geologisches Institut, Albertstr.23-B
D-7800 Freiburg i.Br., West Germany