SGI....

At 2:02 PM +0000 11/9/05, Jules Richardson wrote: My pair of O2's (a lowly R5k 180Mhz (the crappy one), and R12k 270Mhz) are probably the most impressive machines I own (including my dual 2Ghz G5 PowerMac). When I got the first one, the R5k, I was *totally* blown away (I'd been the SysAdmin for a couple of SGI systems years ago, but never really got to play with them). Having said that, they're somewhat unfriendly to hobbyists, and they've pretty much killed off what made them cool, the MIPS range and IRIX. I don't know what it would have taken, but I can't help but think that they should have spent some resources porting IRIX to Itanium, rather than spending all that effort on Linux. I'd love to get a nice SGI Octane2 or Tezro, but I sure can't justify the expense! It would make more sense to spend the money on either a Sunblade 1000, or building a good Linux box.