Silicon Graphics Irix, Part II

From: Arfon Gryffydd <arfonrg_at_texas.net>
Date: Fri Jan 8 14:31:06 1999

Well, there are 3 of them for about $30.00 each... Huge cabinets and huge
monitors...
Are they worth grabbing? Can I use the monitors for anything? Can I
connect them to my ARCnet/Ethernet/Parallel/Serial port network and be useful?




At 12:09 PM 1/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>It was thus said that the Great William Donzelli once stated:
>>
>> > I have a chance to grab some Silicon graphics Irix 31xx machines... They
>> > SEEM to need a boot tape. Anyone know anything about these boxes?
What's
>> > the OS?
>>
>> You are going to want and OLD version of IRIX (around version 3), as these
>> boxes were fairly quickly kicked off the support wagon (SGI seems to be
>> kind of bad about that). These old things are not incredibly usefull Unix
>> boxes, as X was never (to my knowledge) ported to them. The graphics are
>> quite good even today, as it probably has a board stuffed with Geometry
>> Engines.
>
> If the systems in question are based upon the MIPS R3000, you can also get
>IRIX 4.x. That has X (if you really need it). IRIX 3.x used NeWS for the
>GUI, which is a very nice windowing system based upon Postscript of all
>things.
>
> -spc (Hated when SGI switched from NeWS to X)
>
>
>
Received on Fri Jan 08 1999 - 14:31:06 GMT