dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (11/06/88)
A few weeks ago, I posted a query about DR11-type interfaces to plug into an SGI compute server (basically a 4D machine without graphics) for the purposes of attaching a Celco film recorder. In addition to a couple of messages from the world at large, I got a reply directly from someone at SGI. Apparently there is such a board, with considerably more capability than a real DR11-W. We're still discussing how to get a driver for it. I don't have anything more concrete to report yet - we won't actually be hooking this up until sometime next year, when we have our new compute server. However, I did want to point out that I'm impressed by the personal attention that Al Whaley at SGI is giving this. We're a small operation that will never buy hardware in large quantities, and have never received this kind of individual attention from any hardware vendor in the past. I've criticised SGI in the past when I though they were doing something dumb; I think they deserve public praise when they do something exceptionally well. Dave Martindale