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The slides mention that the SGI RealityEngine had a programmable geometry engine. That geometry engine board alone held multiple (six or so?) Intel i860XP proce
by gmueckl 5y ago
The slides mention that the SGI RealityEngine had a programmable geometry engine. That geometry engine board alone held multiple (six or so?) Intel i860XP processors. Now I'm curious how much that whole thing must have cost new. The amount of hardware SGI threw at accelerated raster graphics was massive.
- brianpaul 5y agoI have an SGI price sheet from July 1993. A 4xR4400/150Mhz, 64MB Onyx RealityEngine2 went for $199,999. Adding 64MB RAM cost another $11,000. The GE board had 12 i860 processors. The big rack-based system w/ 24 CPUs was $634,900. And people complain about the prices of GPUs nowadays...
- gsempe 5y agoI think internet deserves a scan of this price sheet. It would be amazing to see it