[CCTALK] Re: First SGI Workstations? unix on 68k / mips

From: Raymond Moyers <rmoyers_at_nop.org>
Date: Thu May 16 22:18:48 2002

On Thursday 16 May 2002 10:26, you wrote:

> The IRIS 2000 was based on a motorola 680xx chip of some kind.
> Their first smaller workstation was a "personal IRIS" system. It
> was a tower case. After that, the Indigo.
>
> I know specifically that the first Indigos used R3000 CPUs, but
> you'll have to look up the ones used in Personal IRIS and IRIS 2000.
>
> Also look at IRIS 3000, and IRIS Professional (I think those are the
> ones) systems, which were produced in between. (In that order)

 It seems everyone started out with 68k chips then mips then ...
 didnt Sun use 68k then mips before sparc ?

 My old sony was the reference platform for unix on mips

 http://www.nop.org/misc/text/sony.unix.announcement.html
 http://www.nop.org/misc/unix/sony

 Raymond
Received on Thu May 16 2002 - 22:18:48 BST

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