18 Dec
2001
18 Dec
'01
8:59 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com [mailto:pete@dunnington.u-net.com]
*Really*?
What are my chances of finding one? I'd love to
have an IRIS
3000, if I found that I could fit it in the
house. :) Did
they run the
> early versions of IRIX? Um, no, not really. I'm sure a Cyber 910 is a
rebadged 4D/35
(or variant,
depending on the Cyber suffix), very similar to an Indigo,
and much smaller
than a 3000. There are plenty of pictures on the web, and
references in
the 4D FAQ. They'll run IRIX 4 or IRIX 5.
Well, that's disappointing, but 4D is still nice.
I do have my heart set on eventually running an m68k-based SGI though.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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18 Dec
18 Dec
9:17 a.m.
Christopher Smith said:
Well, that's disappointing, but 4D is still nice.
I do have my heart set on eventually running an m68k-based SGI though.
speaking of old SGIs...did any of them use microchannel? The reason I ask is
that I have an old (1987 or '88, I think), SGI-branded 2-board video adapter
that plugs into 2 MCA slots. The only other things I can imagine it might be
for are an RS/6k, but that seems doubtful, or a PS/2 or some such PC thing,
which seems even less likely...
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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9:53 a.m.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Dan Wright wrote:
speaking of old SGIs...did any of them use
microchannel?
Nope. Multibus, VME, GIO, XIO, EISA, PCI.. never MCA.
The reason I ask is that I have an old (1987 or
'88, I think),
SGI-branded 2-board video adapter that plugs into 2 MCA slots. The
only other things I can imagine it might be for are an RS/6k, but that
seems doubtful, or a PS/2 or some such PC thing, which seems even less
likely...
Guess what? It's for a PS/2.
What you have is an IRISVISION display adapter. Check out Louis Ohland's
"9595 Ardent Tool of Capitalism" page.
ok
r.
3:08 p.m.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
Actually, the card was designed to do CAD on the first generation of
RS/6000's. PS/2 support was added (barely) as an afterthought.
Peace... Sridhar
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Dan Wright wrote:
Indeed.
speaking of old SGIs...did any of them use
microchannel?
Nope. Multibus, VME, GIO, XIO, EISA, PCI.. never MCA. The reason I
ask is that I have an old (1987 or '88, I think),
SGI-branded 2-board video adapter that plugs into 2 MCA slots. The
only other things I can imagine it might be for are an RS/6k, but that
seems doubtful, or a PS/2 or some such PC thing, which seems even less
likely...
Guess what? It's for a PS/2.
What you have is an IRISVISION display adapter. Check out Louis Ohland's
"9595 Ardent Tool of Capitalism" page.
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