From: bobp@hal.com (Bob Pendelton)
Subject: Re: PC source for Hires Power Glove
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1991 14:26:50 GMT
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.



>From article <1991Oct10.193735.6465@milton.u.washington.edu>, by 
kreinddm@ucunix.san.uc.EDU (David M Kreindler):

> In article <1991Oct10.050259.5561@milton.u.washington.edu> galt@dsd.es.com 
> (Greg Alt - Perp) writes:
> 
>>(btw has anyone found public domain 3D graphics system for PC's?)
> 
> They exist, but what it boils down to is, what do you want to use 3D
> graphics on a PC *for*?  If it's anything even close to real-time
> animation, using modern-day PC's are a dead end; rather, scrape
> together a few more $$$, and go get yourself an SGI IRIS.  (Second-hand
> ones can be quite functional and considerably less expensive, too.)

As an employee of Evans & Sutherland Greg Alt has daily access to
graphics workstations (ESV Series) that make an SGI IRIS look little
better than a PC. These machines can do realtime animation in 24 bit
quad-buffered stereo in multiple windows. But he thinks, and I agree,
that useful work can be done on low cost computers.

If you have useful information to contribute, contribute it. But why
waste time criticizing other people for spending their own time and
money doing something they think is valuable?

			Bob P.

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