8 Jan
1999
8 Jan
'99
6:31 a.m.
Well, there are 3 of them for about $30.00 each... Huge cabinets and huge
monitors...
Are they worth grabbing? Can I use the monitors for anything? Can I
connect them to my ARCnet/Ethernet/Parallel/Serial port network and be useful?
At 12:09 PM 1/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
If the systems in question are based upon the MIPS R3000, you can also get
IRIX 4.x. That has X (if you really need it). IRIX 3.x used NeWS for the
GUI, which is a very nice windowing system based upon Postscript of all
things.
-spc (Hated when SGI switched from NeWS to X)
It was thus said that the Great William Donzelli once
stated:
>
> > I have a chance to grab some Silicon graphics Irix 31xx machines... They
> > SEEM to need a boot tape. Anyone know anything about these boxes?
What's
the OS?
You are going to want and OLD version of IRIX (around version 3), as these
boxes were fairly quickly kicked off the support wagon (SGI seems to be
kind of bad about that). These old things are not incredibly usefull Unix
boxes, as X was never (to my knowledge) ported to them. The graphics are
quite good even today, as it probably has a board stuffed with Geometry
Engines.