IRIX 6.4? (was: Re: [SunRescue] SS10 SX board...curious)

Kurt Mosiejczuk kurt at csh.rit.edu
Mon Aug 7 07:29:40 CDT 2000


On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Bjrn Ramqvist wrote:

> Uuh... just for curiosity, what machine doesn't run 6.4, beside the
> Chrimson and the old R3000-based Indigos and Personal IRISes?
> Those were dog-slow anyway, so consider that as an almost as "foul act"
> of dropping old hardware support as Sun does with Sun4 vs SunOS 2.6 and
> Sun4c vs SunOS 2.8.
> IRIX 6.4 should be no problem, even on fairly old hardware.
> 
> 
> 	/Regards, Bjorn

Ok, I pulled the 6.4 number out of the air.  I didn't remember which
OS version was the problem and didn't figure on bothering my friend
for it.  The conversation I "quoted" was almost identical though.

--Kurt






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