halpin@UMass.BITNET (10/19/86)
Greetings,
Ive read a number of articles about the TI 34010 and Intel 82786
graphics processors being the next big rage in workstations and I was
wondering just what kind of performance one can expect from these
chips. If anyone has had a chance to play with either of these could
you comment on their speed relative to say a uVAX II/GPX (the only
workstation Ive used enough to use as a reference)? Im particularly
interested in how fast it would be at supporting X (I gather from
Digitals literature that X runs slower than their primary graphics
interface).
While I'm questioning the 'commercial technology of the next six
months' I noticed an article in EDN about 5 1/4" hard disk that can
store 760M, has an average access time of 18 ms and can transfer data
at 15mb/sec, and a price (1000 unit qty) that is in the lower half of
the four digit range. It should be available in the first quarter of
'87. This seems rather remarkable!!! The question this brings up is
what level of density is considered 'safe' or 'proven' in the high
end market?
-Steve
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