Rackable Systems acquires SGI [LWN.net]

Rackable Systems acquires SGI

Posted Apr 1, 2009 21:10 UTC (Wed) by cdarroch (guest, #26812)
In reply to: Rackable Systems acquires SGI by ajross
Parent article: Rackable Systems acquires SGI

How true. Remembering the IRIS 1400 and its Geometry Engine pipeline brings back some fond memories. Sending matrices off to the hardware to be multiplied with a simple set of functions like:

loadmatrix(ctrl);
multmatrix(bezier);
multmatrix(gen);
getmatrix(ctrl);

blew anything one's personal Hercules Graphics Card could do out of the water.

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