10 May
2013
10 May
'13
5:44 p.m.
On Fri, 10 May 2013, John Many Jars wrote:
On 10 May 2013 23:55,various people wrote:
Yes. Good as an educational exercise (the porting), but kinda pointless to
actually run.
It seemed like a good idea at the time (it wasn't) because:
The IRIX on the machine was knackered.
I didn't have any media to reinstall it.
I hadn't heard of this mailing list.
I wanted to try to run my BBS software on it.
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I wouldn't do it again, and I wish I could get it going on IRIX again.
I haven't powered it up in ages. I wonder if it's still working... (;
More than likely!
Possible caps in the PSU may've dried up though.
I'll never understand the drive to put Linux on
an SGI. "Gee, we've got
all this great hardware, let's WASTE it!"
People want to run linux on everything. Even toilets!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajW2fDy41fY)
Linux is definitely a waste of SGI's hardware. --
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