[rescue] SGI O2 Rescue

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 07:13:41AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:16:21AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> > 
> > > SGI O2
> > > Irix 6.3
> > > MIPS R1000 Rev 2.7/2.6
> > > 195Mhz Proc
> > > 192 / 256 MB RAM
> > 
> > Nice!
> 
> I run a R10k/175 with 256MB RAM as my desktop.  It is nice, a little
> sluggish; but I understand that the 175 had some issue with the memory
> controller that the 195 does not.

I've never heard that.  R10ks running at 195mhz, in my experience,
typically could be called a little sluggish.  It seems that when they
can let loose and just chugg at a problem they are blazing fast, but
when they have to be interactive they suffer.  My octane can sit down
and chugg through data very nicely, whether it is IO heavy or CPU heavy,
but it isn't as responsive in Mozilla as my P2 machine was.  Oh well.
One of these days I'll get it upgraded to a R12k.

> Actually we should ask whether you just have RCA jacks on the side of
> the machine or S-Video inputs as well.  If S-Video, you have the nicer
> more featureful AV module.

Just remeber, don't expect to do real work with the AV module on a
machine with any of the R5ks.