[CCTALK] First SGI Workstations?

From: Al Kossow <aek_at_spies.com>
Date: Thu May 16 08:14:22 2002

> I am wondering what the first SGI workstation was

There should be an SGI hardware FAQ that I contributed some
info to on the web that shows the early products. The first
Unix products were based on the SUN 68000 design and ran
a swapping Unix (1400 series)
Later 2000 and 3000 series Irises ran with paging and 68010'a
and 020's

The 68000 based machines did not have a directly addressable
frame buffer, and the original IRIS display didn't really do
bitblts very well, making it great for visualization, but
pretty poor as a windowing workstation.

There were a few diskless products that could be netbooted and
used as terminals in the 1000 series, but I'm not sure what
software they ran (I suspect it was some variant of the Stanford
V kernel)
Received on Thu May 16 2002 - 08:14:22 BST

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