All you
Wanted to know about "silicone"
but were afraid to ask.
Paul youngster.
"Computer Review."
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Hurricane-force winds howl over
Silicon Valley, earth trembles under the heavy tread
mastodons: SILICON GRAPHICS
(SGI) acquires CRAY.
Two well-known manufacturers
Software
three-dimensional modeling and visualization - ALIAS and
WaveFront - cease to compete,
to combine their destructive power in a joint project MAYA.
Created hardware - software package predostovlyayuschy
simultaneous access to the some area vertualny
space of an unlimited number of designers, architects,
designers, artists and Composers ... All those coming from
overseas telegraphic echoes of the landmark achievements
disturb the imagination is not less
than "Jurassic Park." That
same for the Giants will be made
to light as a result of all these
mergers and acquisitions? Capable
Does anyone to submit their own, not
deprived of reason? Meanwhile
Some sources of information
curtly told that the number of
"Silicones" in Ukraine is about to
exceeded one hundred. Enthusiasts
also willing to fiercely argue for days about them, and we have
not count. The latter fact, since
almost complete absence of sensible information about these
legendary machines, can be explained except psychoanalytic
symbolism of a certain kind of sublimation (silicone implants,
spermicides and all that etc.). During the debate, supporters
of universal siliconizing assert the following: * The SGI to
make films, "Gas nokosilschik "and" Terminator 2 "
* They are on the table at each
Designer of NASA and FORD
MOTORS.
* Id Software has used SGI
the development of DOOM 3.
* Mean does not pay twice, but
three times and seven times seven.
Opponents object to something
like:
* And here I read that "the term
Thor has been on SUN, and "Gas
nokosilschik "- on MACINTOSH'e.
* So let it be on my razo
Gnann Pentium hacked
3D STUDIO operates ten
times slower, but it obho
reduces me to 100 times cheaper!
* Maybe this is beautiful, but about
tivoestestvenno. Personally, I'm talking about
TIV any substitutes!
* In the end, every
TSEVM with cybernetic point
view, the equivalent machine
Turing.
It is easy to see that some of these
arguments purely subjective, and
others are agitpropovsky character. And if you have configured
objectively, readily acknowledge
that in such a dispute the truth can not be born. What is truth?
And the truth is that, based on the
historical circumstances, the details of which
in this article is inexpedient to go, SGI during
nearly ten years of monopoly
leader as a hardware platform at the forefront of applied and
theoretical research in the field of computer graphics and
image processing. Challenge is meaningless - Scroll scientific
publications in such an impartial and academic publications as
COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND APPLICATIONS, IMAGE
ANALYSIS AND PATTERN RECOGNITION
or any other. Add to
that the most lasting and
fabulously expensive projects, subsidized by the military,
aerospace and medical
agencies, and industry
entertainment and show business, and you
understand why the Western consumer puts so much money
for SGI and its software. Even INDY - the youngest in
noble family - it is
real access to literally invaluable arsenal of tools created by
the best minds of modern times, the treasury knowledge, which
reached critical mass and, according
the laws of a chain reaction does not stop an avalanche-like
increase. Considerations of prestige have
to expensive workstations
SGI tertiary ratio -
Designers do not accidentally make out
their appearance emphasized
functionally, with deliberate and
even a few rough rigor - no gold plating with chromium, no
colored lights and other "pop." Housing system unit is as
simple as sand-lime brick. Aesthetics "Silicone" - this is a
quiet confidence, which emanates from the car FORD-T: "You can
buy our car any color for
provided that the color - black. "
The high cost of "silicone" is justified in the first place it
functionality.
To be continued ...
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