[rescue] SGI Indy for $25?

[Carl-Johan Schenstrom]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> Things to consider:
> 1) If you have less than 128megs of ram, plan on running Irix 5.3 instead
>         of 6.

I ran 6.5 on my Indy R4400 at 150MHz with 64 MB of RAM and had no trouble
running a few xterms, Emacs and Netscape while doing some some minor Java
development.

> 2) If you have less than an r4.4k (and the r4.6k is less), then consider Irix
> 	6.2 instead of 6.4.

6.4 doesn't run on Indys. 6.5 is the successor to 6.2.

> 3) The best video card is the XZ, and they are affordable on ebay, but for the
> 	price of upgrading memory and the XZ, you probably could have bought a
> 	far better Indigo 2.

If it's an R5K I believe you're better off with an XL24, even for 3D.

//cjs