[comp.sys.sun] TAAC vs. GX

wiedeman@orion.cf.uci.edu (Lyle Wiedeman) (08/29/89)

I have a client who wishes to do medical imaging on a Sun.  He is weighing
the relative advantages of upgrading his Sun 4/110 (adding a TAAC board)
versus purchasing a SparcStation 1GX outright.

I would appreciate any experiences, insights, yeah, even opinions, and
will gladly post a summary.

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	Lyle Wiedeman                 Distributed Computing Support
	wiedeman@orion.cf.uci.edu     Academic Computing Services
	wiedeman@UCI.BITNET           Univ. Calif. Irvine

howard@aic.hrl.hac.com (Mike Howard) (09/20/89)

In article <1233@brazos.Rice.edu> wiedeman@orion.cf.uci.edu (Lyle Wiedeman) writes:
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>I have a client who wishes to do medical imaging on a Sun.  He is weighing
>the relative advantages of upgrading his Sun 4/110 (adding a TAAC board)
>versus purchasing a SparcStation 1GX outright.

Of course you know that the TAAC takes 3 slots, so he would have to
pay for not only the TAAC board but also the larger cabinet.

Mike Howard

daves@ee.ubc.ca (David Small) (12/13/89)

TAAC vs. GX
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Would anyone care to share what knowledge they have of the relative
advantages of buying a TAAC board versus GX graphics cards for a lab of
SPARCstation 1's served by a SPARCserver 370.  The application area is
analysis of remotely sensed synthetic aperture radar imagery.