[geeks] Fwd: [rescue] R4400/100 Indigo

[Big Endian]

>On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:09:46AM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
>>  >Speaking of which I wonder what it would take technically to get 6.5.x
>>  >onto a Crimson... i.e. what binaries are missing, and how much work was
>>  >SGI shirking back in the day... it's the only machine in that entire
>>  >generation that won't run 6.5.... what's the deal?...
>>
>>  Umm... the Crimson is a Power Series box and therefor has the same
>>  limitations of anything else in that generation.  The fact that you
>>  have an 150mhz R4400 in there doesn't mean its of the same generation
>>  as the Challenge.
>
>So what, they took one of the RE Powerseries boxes and jimmied a r4k into
>it?  I suppose it isn't unheard of (look at indigo w/ r4k or indigo2 w/
>r10k).
>

They jimmied both the RE and the R4k into it.  The RE is *SO* 
bandwidth limited in the crimson.

>Still, I'd always thought of the Crimson as closer to Onyx than anything else.

Its about 64mb/sec vs 1.2gb/sec close to an onyx.  Its in a whole 
different category.  That being said the crimson is a *DAMN* fast 
machine and the RE is no slouch.

daniel
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