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2026-03-30 22:05:35 UTC

Fabian Giesen on Nostr: Never looked at the specs of the original SGI RealityEngine, and holy shit this is ...

Never looked at the specs of the original SGI RealityEngine, and holy shit https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/166117.166131
this is completely bonkers for 1993. Just look at these boards!
(this is actually a RealityEngine 2 Geometry Engine)
and a Raster Manager board

no wonder these things cost $infinity