IRIX 6.4? (was: Re: [SunRescue] SS10 SX board...curious)

[nick at snowman.netnick]

Hehe, anything much older than an O2 won't run 6.4 in any worthwhile
way.  I know, I've got a "speed daemon" r5k 180mhz indy running 6.4.7 (I
think, might be 6.4.8), and it HURTS.  I've never seen a gui that slow
since I ditched the 386 that was running xfree86.  It might work ok sorta
mabey if you nuked all the GUI, and had a nice GIO scsi system, running
nothing but exactly what you needed.
	Nick

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Bjrn Ramqvist wrote:

> Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > 
> > > won't be bothering with X on any of my SPARCs.  IRIX is just too good.
> > >       Grego
> > 
> > *shudder*
> > 
> > I suppose that may be true for a home network, but I have a friend who
> > went from an all-Sun shop to Sun and SGI, and is now back to being all-Sun
> > BECAUSE of IRIX and the (lack of) support SGI gives out.
> > 
> > Fun stuff like:
> > 
> > Admin: We've got this bug.
> > SGI: That's fixed in 6.4
> > Admin: But my machines won't run 6.4
> > SGI: Correct.
> > Admin: So can I get a fix for my machines?
> > SGI: That bug is fixed in 6.4
> > 
> > Ugh.
> 
> Uuh... just for curiosity, what machine doesn't run 6.4, beside the
> Chrimson and the old R3000-based Indigos and Personal IRISes?
> Those were dog-slow anyway, so consider that as an almost as "foul act"
> of dropping old hardware support as Sun does with Sun4 vs SunOS 2.6 and
> Sun4c vs SunOS 2.8.
> IRIX 6.4 should be no problem, even on fairly old hardware.
> 
> 
> 	/Regards, Bjorn
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