[geeks] octane personal video

[Kurt Huhn]

Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> On Friday 17 January 2003 18:22, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> > Octane is (for now) unsupported by linux.  If you want to help fix that
> > drop me a line.
> 
> Hehey... some people actually do something USEFUL here :-)
> 
> how comes the octane isn't supported? cpu? video? 
> 

Probably the entire architecture.  The CPU itself isn't all that unusual,
but the crossbar switch, XIO expansion, the various graphics adapters, not
to mention the PVO or any of the other XIO boards.

It's all very specialized stuff, and only SGI really uses it in this
context.

-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com