lacomb@SIERRA.STANFORD.EDU ("Lloyd J. Lacomb") (08/20/90)
There was some discussion a few weeks ago about the IBM RS/6000 series and it graphcis capibilites. At the time I gave it only passing interest but recently someone wanted to know if some code I'd written could be ported to the RS/6000. I looked back over the earlier messages and decided that the 24 bit system probably could run the software if it had the z-buffering hardware. Does anyone know if the RS/6000 supports z-buffering in hardware or software and to what depth. thanks in advance. Lloyd LaComb lacomb@sierra.stanford.edu
mla34142@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (08/21/90)
/* Written 3:18 pm Aug 19, 1990 by lacomb@SIERRA.STANFORD.EDU in uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.sgi */ /* ---------- "Z-buffering on RS/6000" ---------- */ There was some discussion a few weeks ago about the IBM RS/6000 series and it graphcis capibilites. At the time I gave it only passing interest but recently someone wanted to know if some code I'd written could be ported to the RS/6000. I looked back over the earlier messages and decided that the 24 bit system probably could run the software if it had the z-buffering hardware. Does anyone know if the RS/6000 supports z-buffering in hardware or software and to what depth. thanks in advance. Lloyd LaComb lacomb@sierra.stanford.edu /* End of text from uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.sgi */
mla34142@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (08/21/90)
The RS/6000 supports a 24-bit Z buffer (same as SGI's Personal IRIS) along with its 24-bit display buffer. Marc