SGI 4D/380

From: Captain Napalm <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Wed Aug 19 12:36:55 1998

It was thus said that the Great R. Stricklin once stated:
>
> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Captain Napalm wrote:
>
> > Another thing---early SGI boxes were more stable than later ones. The one
> > I used for four years (SGI Personal Iris 4D/35) had the mother board
> > replaced once, the graphics card replaced once and the monitor was going
> > (everything had a slight green tinge to it).
>
> The 4D/35 is widely regarded as flakey at best. Much more troublesome than
> both the 4D/25 that came before and the Indigo R3000 that replaced it.

  How odd. It was originally a 4D/25 that was upgraded (motherboard
replacement) to the 4D/35 (and not because it needed fixing---my bosses
wanted the 4D/35 but it wasn't available at the time it was purchased).

> I have an R4600 Indy and an R4400 Indigo. I wish the Indy were faster and
> that IRIX suffered less from "not-invented-here", but there it is.

  IRIX (at least 3.3.2 and 4.0.1) seem to be pretty much stock SYSV with BSD
extentions to me. I did like the administrative tools and the login screen
was great! (it showed a picture for each user and you could replace the
default picture with one of your own)

  -spc (Find it odd that the Challenger series is headless ... )
Received on Wed Aug 19 1998 - 12:36:55 BST