[rescue] Oracle making just a little harder to keep old machines in use

[Robert Darlington]

I miss the big iron sgi days too.  I have lots of sgi gear to get rid
of once I dig my way to the back of storage including a sweet deskside
Onyx that I got from Ethan in a round about way, but I will never part
with my indigo 2!

-Bob

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Ian Finder <ian.finder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Same here.  Every new generation of hardware was novel and impressive, the
>> OS was rock-solid, and Indigo Magic was the nicest desktop around before
>> OS X matured.
>>
>
> I love my Macs, but OS X has none of the charm Indigo Magic had. I concede
> that OS X is IMD's replacement for the best desktop throne though.
>
>>> No joke, it actually torments me quite frequently that their that
>>> platform is gone forever, and there is now a Dell box under my desk.
>>
>> At least you'll never have to get into a wrestling match with inst again.
>
> Hahahaha. I had that one mostly figured out. Every version of every Irix os
CD
> I had at work, and every version of software we used- all dumped on a big
NFS
> share.
>
> Once I got that figured out, running a bunch of SGI boxes was the most fun
I
> ever had with computers.
>
> Then, the workstations started to disappear and these ugly, grossly-curved,
> cheap grey-and-black things from Round Rock Texas started showing up,
running
> some OS pretending to be Unix.
>
> Then our Origin was replaced with no-name P4s on Infiniband.
>
> Then I left.
>
>>
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