17 Jan
2003
17 Jan
'03
5:16 p.m.
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote:
It's not just on a system like that. Earlier this
week I got my first SGI
system, a nice little O2. It's about the crappiest of the O2's, but it's
still a *very* nice UNIX workstation. I thought that it was doing OK at
surfing until yesterday when I wanted to check something on gamespot, it
absolutly crawled to a halt trying to render the pages (well the browser
did, the rest of the system was nice and responsive). I swear it took close
to 10 minutes to get to the third page (the one that had the data I was
curious about).
I think I'll now run the browser on my Linux box and retarget it to the
SGI's desktop (at least until I get an Octane).
I'll wait to get an Onyx. Actually, the Origin 2000s are quite lovely,
too. They're still really off topic for this list.
-brian.