[SunRescue] Dumb Term

Joshua D. Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue May 22 21:35:24 CDT 2001


Well, that's sad.  I find the old SGIs fascinating.  Irix 5 and later are
nice, but they are too close to what we have today.  I'd love to someday
get my hands on an irix 3 or earlier box.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 
>   It got thrown in the trash (!) when the suits took over Digex and
> ruined it.  To make matters worse, it didn't belong to me...it was on
> loan from a [now-former-as-a-result] friend.
> 
>   Suits fucking blow dog.  Especially suits that wreck things that I
> care about.
> 
>            Not bitter at all,
>             -Dave McGuire
> 
> On May 22, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > Does this mean that you no longer have that IRIS machine?  Does anyone on
> > this list have anything older than the 4D series?
> > 
> > --
> > Joshua Boyd
> > 
> > On Tue, 22 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > 
> > > On May 22, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > > It certainly wasn't an IRIS-1000.  Haven't all SGI machines been based
> > > > on the MIPS chips?  Hmmm.... I guess not (according to the IRIS FAQ)!
> > > 
> > >   I had an SGI Iris3000 a long time ago...it used a 68020.  Multibus-I.
> > > 
> > >   The graphics pipeline was amazing even back then!
> > > 
> > > 
> > >            -Dave McGuire
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