>From: Scott Stevens <sastevens_at_earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
>Posts"<cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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>Subject: Re: WARNING: RANTING COMPUTER NUT...
>Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:02:50 -0500
>
<SNIP>
>I've never committed the crime of having anything to do with the SGI
>boxes that sport an Intel processor and run NT, though.
>
>(Aieeee!, huh? )
>
<SNIP>
I think those are going to be collectable machines. I've been looking for a
cheap one for a while. It's a really interesting architecture. Custom memory
bus (== EXPENSIVE memory modules) Custom system bus and integrated video
controller. These things were way ahead of anything else at the time,
unfortunatly for SGI the PC hardware market catches up quickly and commodity
PC hardware had the kind of bus speeds their workstations had within a year
(RAMBUS, BOO! HISS!) As vertically marketed as they were they don't run
anything other than Windows NT. I think there's a version of Linux floating
around for them, and odds are NetBSD will at least boot on them (Horray for
serial console! :)
>(** I'm probably one of the .0001% of people who has seen a Windows NT
>desktop on a PowerPC system)
I've got Visual Studio 5 for PowerPC if you're interested...
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Received on Mon Jun 21 2004 - 08:58:34 BST