Re: downloading irix

From: Khalid Schofield (oums0246_at_crow.linux.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 02/24/04

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    Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:30:20 +0000
To: SkyWriter <skywriter@mrnutty.com>

    Funny to hear you sa buy a PeeCee.....
    I've just bought a Dell GX60 off of ebay. It's a 2.6Ghz system wit 512Mb
    memory and a 64Mb graphics card. It's so so sooooooooooo
    SlOwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....

    I admit that it's a crippled celeron chip but really 2600,000,000 Hertz!!!

    Bloody hell it's a pile of junk. I plays divx back fine but try doing
    enything elce. Wait until I get onto the OS. It's junk. It's kinda does
    the job at making a junk botched together PeeCee look like a workstation
    but look inside and even just try to use it and you know it's just not
    up to the job. It even crashed when I enables UDMA 100 on the disk. It's a
    UDMA disk too!!! Good lord.

    Pathetic PeeCee users say in their pathetic voice "Errrrrm whats the point
    in a silicon graphics, the disks are just as fast as my pc, the graphics
    are just as good and the cpu is slower',

    Well the disks run as true speed all the time and last about 10 times
    linger, when you access the disk it
    doesn't lock up your whole machine (yesterday I watched a guy copy 12Gb's
    of data from one disk to another and his PeeCee locked up and even the
    mouse was moving slowly.........), how many times have you seen an SGI
    crash and need to pull the plug out?

    Lets face it if you really believe a PC is better for your work then your
    works not that important. Why not just go down the pub.

    Don't go down the PC route. I'm giving my Dell away just to see the back
    of it.

    Oh ever tried getting diagnostics data out of a PeeCee serial port when
    you can't boot it?? Thats right you can't it doesn't work.

    Total arce cludged together trash (PeeCee)

    BSD on your SGI is far better than buying a PC. My Indy is still going
    strong. I replaced the disk (after 10 years of service) re-installed the
    latest ver of irix (at the time 6.5.16) and set it going. Now all my mail
    goes to that box. It's my mail ftp, shell account box that I telnet or ssh
    into. Never a single problem. It's also a gr8 mp3 player.

    *********************
    Khalid Schofield
    System Administrator / EM Technician
    Dept. Of Materials
    University Of Oxford
    Parks Road
    Oxford
    OX1 3PH

    Email: khalid.schofield@materials.ox.ac.uk
    Tel: 01865 273785
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    On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, SkyWriter wrote:

    > Florian Bachmann wrote:
    >
    > > pip wrote:
    > > > does anyone know if an irix 6.5 installation is available for download
    > > > anywhere? I have an indy with a blank disk so I need the whole thing.
    > >
    > > free O/S: tux awaits you at www.linux-mips.org
    >
    > penguins eat their young too, buy a peecee.
    >
    > >
    >
    > >
    > >
    > > real O/S: www.ebay.com, around 100 USD will buy you IRIX 6.5
    >
    > get free supportfolio account, and download recent updates to base
    > IRIX 6.5.
    >
    >

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