[rescue] quad head pci video cards

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Mon Jan 5 15:54:47 CST 2009


On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:48:33PM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Joshua Boyd wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:32:18PM -0700, Robert Darlington wrote:
> >>I agree, it really depends.  I ran servers for driving huge displays
> >>(Origin 2000 systems).  The whole point was that they had display
> >>hardware.
> >
> >I am curious about how you huge displays from an Origin 2000.  Did you
> >hack something, or did SGI have some supported graphics hardware for the
> >Origin 2000 that I'm not aware of?
> 
> Wouldn't that configuration be called an Onyx2?

Not nescesarily.  

Back in the Challenge days, there were graphics options for Challenges
other than just converting them to an Onyx.

I wasn't aware that there was ever officially a Origin 2000 graphics
option is all, and Robert vaguely made it sound like this was something
at a job.



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