We are possibly about to buy ourselves a few PWS 433 boxes to run
Digital Unix. The machines should be capable of displaying 24-bit
colour and having hardware OpenGL acceleration (We will be running
CAD applications like Pro/Engineer and I-DEAS). We notice that:
The 4D20 is the cheapest card that at least meets our most basic
needs, but its performance for OpenGL solid 3D doesn't seem to be that
exciting.
The 4D40T is just perfect (we have a AS500/500 with one of those and
we are very pleased with it). Hovever, it is more expensive and has
inferior performance (it has also almost vanished from the product
papers) compared to the...
...4D30T which is even nicer than the 4D40T and costs less. Problem is
that there are no Unix Open3D drivers available for it (it is not yet
supprted under Digital Unix as it seems).
Anybody here that can spread some light about wether Digital has said
anything about Digital Unix support for the 4D30T - official or
inofficial?
Thanks,
/Erik
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Erik Persson, System Manager e-mail: erik_at_ikp.liu.se
Dept. of Mech. Engineering Voice: +46 13 28 2464
Division of Solid Mechanics Fax: +46 13 21 2717
University of Linköping, Sweden
Received on Tue Jan 20 1998 - 17:20:27 NZDT