New POWER toys
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 07:15:25 CDT 2005
Al Kossow wrote:
> > There are some ass-kicking (for the time) video cards for the very early
> > RS/6000s that took up three slots (!).
>
> They were based on the early SGI 4D chip sets.
> It would run the SGI flight simulator (I had a set in the RS/6000 I used
> for early PPC Mac development)
It's called the IRISvision/MC. I have one.
I've found that the later high-speed MCA graphics cards designed to work
with later MCA RS/6000's tend to be quite a bit faster.
Plus the IRISvision only supports AIX<4.
Peace... Sridhar
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