[rescue] re: SGI ZX10 comment

Tue Dec 17 22:50:48 CST 2002

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:50:53PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > gotten for pennies on the dollar (maybe penny on th edollar, part of a
> > $50 lot that included a dozen or so SS/20/Ultra RAM sticks, over a
> > dozen Creator "SBUS" cards (I know) and some TGX/TGX+ framebuffers), so
> > I won't cry if it won't boot... ;^)
> > 
> > I can get specific model info, but I'll have to stop by my storage
> > space and pick it up...
> 
> Post the info to the list, maybe someone can help.  I'm thinking it is
> probably a TDZ-2000, which isn't too strange of a machine.  I think it
> was supposed to take normal PC100 ram, but I'd have to check again.  My
> recall is that SGI just rebadged this to get the Zx10, but I could be
> wrong. 

I guess it would be appropriate to ask whether the ZX10 can have other
OSes like Linux or Solaris installed, rather than the one of the
supported, but legacy Microsoft OSes.

Cordially
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