> On Jun 13, 9:35, John Allain wrote:
> > This was very amusing thanks.
> >
> > I once overheard some internal guys
> > (another company, BTW) talking about SGI desktops.
> > Maybe you heard this one? After the success of
> > the SGI blue tower "Indigo" they came out with a
> > desktop "Indy". It was noticeably slower, though
> > making it: "The Indy, an Indigo without the go"
>
> It's a nice story, but unfortunately, only a story. I should know: I have
> three Indigos and two Indys of my own, and manage about a hundred more at
> work. An (blue) Indy is faster than an (purple) Indigo.
>
There is a good deal of truth to it. The original Indy was
sold without a secondary cache, which resulted in a very
slow machine. Even though it had a faster processor than
the Indigo, it quite often ran much slower. The original
Indy was designed to be a low end workstation to pull people
into the SGI line. It was designed to go head-to-head with
the low end Sun workstations. This was later discovered
to be a mistake, and secondary cache and faster processors
were later added. The Indy continued to evolve long after
the original Indigo disappeared from SGI price books. A
fairer comparison would be to the Indigo II, which evolved
at basically the same pace as the Indy.
--
Dr. Mark Green mark_at_cs.ualberta.ca
Professor (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 16:05:38 BST