On Jun 13, 15:07, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Perhaps slightly more than a story. To bring the cost down on the Indy,
> they were available with or without secondary cache. All R4000 Indigos
> have secondary cache (1 MB of it, IIRC), and this resulted in the older
> R4000 Indigo being noticeably quicker than most of the least expensive
> Indys.
Only the very first Indys; SGI very quickly (a few months) moved from R4000
to 4400 and then 4600, which are the same speed as, or slightly faster
than, the R4K Indigo. But yes, I'd forgotten about the original R4000PC
Indy, and that would account for the story.
> Certainly the Indy was available in configurations which are a good deal
> quicker than the fastest Indigo (150 MHz R4400), though there are
> operations for which the Indigo's Elan graphics are quicker than the
> Indy's top-of-the-line XZ graphics...
That's certainly true, so I'm glad that one of mine is an XS24 and another
is an Elan, although the R5K might make a difference even then, or so I
hear on comp.sys.sgi.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 17:16:12 BST