[rescue] Identifying SGI in picture for interests sake

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Sep 10 18:22:30 CDT 2002


On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 06:14:59PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> > > All kidding around aside, Windows NT did at one time run on MIPS
> > > hardware.

> Public release of NT, but not a public release of the SGI hardware.  SGI
> had NT 3.5 running on an R4400 Indigo2 that had the necessary system
> board and firmware alterations to make it little-endian.  They used some
> crappy EISA video card to provide a framebuffer.

Eww.  Unclean, unclean!

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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