13 Jun
2000
13 Jun
'00
8:41 a.m.
On Jun 13, 9:35, John Allain wrote:
This was very amusing thanks.
I once overheard some internal guys
(another company, BTW) talking about SGI desktops.
Maybe you heard this one? After the success of
the SGI blue tower "Indigo" they came out with a
desktop "Indy". It was noticeably slower, though
making it: "The Indy, an Indigo without the go"
It's a nice story, but unfortunately, only a story. I should know: I have
three Indigos and two Indys of my own, and manage about a hundred more at
work. An (blue) Indy is faster than an (purple) Indigo.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
9:31 a.m.
On Jun 13, 9:35, John Allain wrote:
The Indy series had CPU upgrades available several times during its lifespan.
We replaced CPU's in our Indys at least twice, becuase SGI gave us a great
bargain on the upgrade price. I know the first time we upgraded was
shortly after we purchased the units, so I wouldnt be surprised if the
original CPU was extremely slow.
-Lawrence LeMay
This was very amusing thanks.
I once overheard some internal guys
(another company, BTW) talking about SGI desktops.
Maybe you heard this one? After the success of
the SGI blue tower "Indigo" they came out with a
desktop "Indy". It was noticeably slower, though
making it: "The Indy, an Indigo without the go"
It's a nice story, but unfortunately, only a story. I should know: I have
three Indigos and two Indys of my own, and manage about a hundred more at
work. An (blue) Indy is faster than an (purple) Indigo.
10:07 a.m.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
It's a nice story, but unfortunately, only a
story. I should know: I have
three Indigos and two Indys of my own, and manage about a hundred more at
work. An (blue) Indy is faster than an (purple) Indigo.
Perhaps slightly more than a story. To bring the cost down on the Indy,
they were available with or without secondary cache. All R4000 Indigos
have secondary cache (1 MB of it, IIRC), and this resulted in the older
R4000 Indigo being noticeably quicker than most of the least expensive
Indys.
Certainly the Indy was available in configurations which are a good deal
quicker than the fastest Indigo (150 MHz R4400), though there are
operations for which the Indigo's Elan graphics are quicker than the
Indy's top-of-the-line XZ graphics...
ok
r.
12:05 p.m.
On Jun 13, 9:35, John Allain wrote:
There is a good deal of truth to it. The original Indy was
sold without a secondary cache, which resulted in a very
slow machine. Even though it had a faster processor than
the Indigo, it quite often ran much slower. The original
Indy was designed to be a low end workstation to pull people
into the SGI line. It was designed to go head-to-head with
the low end Sun workstations. This was later discovered
to be a mistake, and secondary cache and faster processors
were later added. The Indy continued to evolve long after
the original Indigo disappeared from SGI price books. A
fairer comparison would be to the Indigo II, which evolved
at basically the same pace as the Indy.
--
Dr. Mark Green mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca
Professor (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
This was very amusing thanks.
I once overheard some internal guys
(another company, BTW) talking about SGI desktops.
Maybe you heard this one? After the success of
the SGI blue tower "Indigo" they came out with a
desktop "Indy". It was noticeably slower, though
making it: "The Indy, an Indigo without the go"
It's a nice story, but unfortunately, only a story. I should know: I have
three Indigos and two Indys of my own, and manage about a hundred more at
work. An (blue) Indy is faster than an (purple) Indigo.
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