Is anyone following me into Silicon Graphics workstations and wants to chat about how rad they are?pic.twitter.com/4KYba3Vmvd
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The Indigo 2 and Octane had similar rough aspects, graphically: The boilerplate SI/SE and SSI/SSE lacked hardware-accelerated texturing. On the I2, only the High IMPACT and Maximum IMPACT boards have hardware-accelerated texturing.
On the Octane, it gets even more weird, as you could turn an SI/SE board into an SI+T/SE+T board, with hardware-accelerated texturing, by adding a TRAM card. Or you could go with an MXI/MXE board. To that end, the first-gen Mardigras (MGRAS) pipe was the same as in the I2.
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Things got a bit more 'normal' with the introduction of VPro, as you always had texturing available. But then you have to contend with V6/V8 vs. V10/V12 (1x vs. 2x geometry generationally, and 1x vs. 4x memory within the generation).
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So yeah. Beyond the capitalist hellscape that is the retro computing market nowadays, you have to contend with knowing exactly what you're buying, if you're buying an SGI machine. The variability within individual models is a hell of a thing.
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