[geeks] Speaking of SGI machines...

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Eric Gregory wrote:

> Just a weird question...  What do most of you that have SGI boxes use them
> for?

Everything.

I have an Indigo2 R10k at 175/SI that I use for a webserver, mail server,
DNS server, SQL server, and remote (over SSH) workstation.  As a
workstation, I use it for mail, IRC, text-editing, development, and some
typesetting in LaTeX.

I have an Octane R10k at 195/SI that I use for a workstation, NFS server,
and SQL server.  As a workstation, I use it for everything I use the
Indigo2 for, plus I actually use the gfx head on it from time-to-time
(but still infrequently enough that I'd love to replace it with an
O200).

> I've got a couple and for a lot of things they just seem a little
> sluggish, but the reliability factor rocks though.

Sluggish?  You have a couple of Indy system with R4000PC CPUs? :)

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