[rescue] Silicon Graphics Iris Crimson 4,400 RISC 150 Mhz

[Big Endian]

>So how good of a box is this in day to day terms? I've found that it
>caps out at this processor and Irix 6.2, but they're asking $50. Is this
>a good deal or do I wait and hope the price gets dropped again?

Thats a *DAMN* good deal.  I have two left *hint* *hint* and they are 
going for $285.  I have a Crimson 150mhz/256mb/2x9gb/RE as part of my 
desk and it runs blender great, works fine with some of the 
(admittedly simple) gl stuff that I'm toying with to learn gl.  It 
does cap out at 6.2.  Reports of 6.5 are out there but seem to be 
false(unfortunately).  The 6.2 cd also is unable to boot a standalone 
fx on a crimson.  So if you don't have prelabled disks you'll need 
annother SGI box or a 5.3 cd to fx the disk.  If you use 5.3 however, 
you won't be able to use XFS.  I seem to have misplaced my 5.3 cd, as 
I was going to ISO this for annother list member doing the same thing.

daniel
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