[geeks] Opinions on the HP C3x00?

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Mon Mar 27 15:21:12 CST 2006


On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:03:31PM -0500, nate at portents.com wrote:

> I also have a 200Mhz R4400 SGI Indy, which now appears to be fully
> supported (including framebuffer!) by NetBSD and Linux (though not the

All frame buffers, or only the 2D ones?

> GIO32 Fast Ethernet card, unfortunately).  And considering I have an
> Indigo2 R10000 with Max Impact and a gig of RAM, I can't say I'd need two
> machines running IRIX, especially when the only thing the Indy has over
> the Indigo2 is the Indycam (I have a GIO64 Fast Ethernet card in the
> Indigo2).

There appears to be a lot of work on Linux on the Octane, including some
support of SI graphics for acceleration.
 
> Yeah, I'm going to continue using my heavily upgraded G4 desktop as my
> main machine for quite a while, I think.

I'll be sticking with PPC Macs for quite sometime as well.  I'll use
Linux on x86 PCs, but I don't really want to support the OS X Intel move
any sooner than I have to.

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