[rescue] O2 as desktop?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:52:59PM -0500, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> I've got a line on a cheap O2 - R5k 180mhz, 384mb, 2x2gb, Irix 
> 6.5w/media. I don't know the size of the cache yet and it has no AV 
> module. My other Unix machine is a Ultra 30, 300mhz/2mb, 512mb ram, 
> how would this compare as a general desktop machine? Without dropping 
> more cash into it, what cool stuff could this O2 do that say a U30 or 
> Linux machine can't? I know about the video as texture and no texture 
> memory features but does that get me anything if I'm only running 
> Irix 6.5 and freeware programs? 

Well, you can run Blender on it.  But a linux machine is better in some ways
for that.

It would be a kick booty gliv box, but how often do you need an image viewer
with incredible speed?

In theory it would be really great for paint software, but I don't know of
any free software that makes better use of an O2 than it does anything else.
Most platforms GL implementations are too crappy to rely on that much.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd