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/10.1145/166117.166131this 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
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