10 Nov
2005
10 Nov
'05
12:37 a.m.
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 14:02 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
David Holland wrote:
Lack of responses to this probably indicates peoples' feelings toward
SGI these days unfortunately - they ceased being a cool company five
years ago :-(
Yeah, unfortunately, though I thought it was longer ago than that they
tried the WinNT route. That's when I think they really started taking
the wrong turn. (IMO)
Of course if they're going to implode I hope someone can save archives
of software + docs from the days when they *did* make decent machines!
I like most of their MIPS boxes. My most impressive box is a Crimson
in a converted PowerSeries frame.
I find it fairly interesting the Crimson is 3x bigger, and 3x quieter
than my Linux PC. (Of course, I think it uses about 9x the
electricity.)
Would still like to find a Onyx "deskside" w/ an IR boardset.
(A properset of Crimson skins would be nice too. hint, hint. :-) )
David
cheers
Jules