RenderMan & RISpec, follow-up question (regarding BMRT & SGI IRIX)

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RenderMan & RISpec >> follow-up question (regarding BMRT & SGI IRIX)

by Marco Gariboldi » Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:16:26 GMT

Dear RenderMan newsgroup,

By the way, are people still using SGIs out there? Or better yet, SGIs
running BMRT? Mostly people privately using it of course, since I doubt
in any production environment, due to license restrictions (or the lack
of license whatsoever; I'm not sure actually, but since either aren't
'around' anymore...)



Kind regards,

Marco Gariboldi
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RenderMan & RISpec >> follow-up question (regarding BMRT & SGI IRIX)

by Marco Gariboldi » Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:34:21 GMT


Dear newsgroup readers and contributors,

Is this newsgroup slowly dying? Please, let it not be so. That'd be real
sad, as it used to thrive...




Kind regards,

Marco Gariboldi
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RenderMan & RISpec >> follow-up question (regarding BMRT & SGI IRIX)

by Olivier3001 » Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:53:19 GMT

On Jan 28, 6:34 pm, Marco Gariboldi < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >


I don't think so. There's a handful of us still reading it... it's
been like that for the past fews years.

MIPS SGIs, on the other hand, are quite dead as far as I'm
concerned ;-) The last time I had a request for 3Delight on IRIX, it
was some guy who'd gotten some old hardware cheap and was looking for
software to try it out. That was like 2 years ago. The O2 is now
collecting dust on a shelf somewhere...

Olivier
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RenderMan & RISpec >> follow-up question (regarding BMRT & SGI IRIX)

by Marco Gariboldi » Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:53:05 GMT

Dear Olivier,

Thank you for your response. Well, a dual-R16000 SGI Tezro is hardly a
O2, performance-wise certainly. Tezros and even some Octane2s are still
in active use in the film and broadcast industry, although mostly for
compositing & editing work. But yes, sadly enough, the heaperLinux
hardware is replacing them with newer versions of these software packages...



Kind regards,

Marco


>> On Jan 28, 6:34 pm, Marco Gariboldi<< XXXX@XXXXX.COM >>
>>> Is this newsgroup slowly dying? Please, let it not be so. That'd be real >>> sad, as it used to thrive... >> >> I don't think so. There's a handful of us still reading it... it's >> been like that for the past fews years. >> >> MIPS SGIs, on the other hand, are quite dead as far as I'm >> concerned ;-) The last time I had a request for 3Delight on IRIX, it >> was some guy who'd gotten some old hardware cheap and was looking for >> software to try it out. That was like 2 years ago. The O2 is now >> collecting dust on a shelf somewhere... >> >> Olivier
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