I have an sgi o2 that was originally the RIP for some sort of fancy print system. Which blew my mind. I mean sure the o2 was sort of the low end system of it's generation. But that is still a 10-20 thousand dollar computer. And you are wasting it on the infernal print queue.
I sort of get it now, it's 1996, you have a million dollar printer, you want to make sure the computer assigned to handle the images can keep up with it, the o2 is probably a good fit.
The other fun fact about the o2 is apparently the oil companies liked it. It is a unified memory architecture. On the one hand this means it's graphics were far slower than it's big brother, the octane, On the other the octane has at most 16 megabytes of video memory. you could get close to a gigabyte of memory in the o2 and and you could use as much of that for video memory as you could get away with. Great for those large geological survey visualizations.
I sort of get it now, it's 1996, you have a million dollar printer, you want to make sure the computer assigned to handle the images can keep up with it, the o2 is probably a good fit.
The other fun fact about the o2 is apparently the oil companies liked it. It is a unified memory architecture. On the one hand this means it's graphics were far slower than it's big brother, the octane, On the other the octane has at most 16 megabytes of video memory. you could get close to a gigabyte of memory in the o2 and and you could use as much of that for video memory as you could get away with. Great for those large geological survey visualizations.