Re: downloading irix
From: SkyWriter (skywriter_at_mrnutty.com)
Date: 02/24/04
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:52:21 GMT
Khalid Schofield wrote:
> 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!!!
>
i bought a viewsonic viewpad 1000. it's nice. i gave my sgi 330 (w2k) to my
wife to websurf. my kids play games on the another peecee.
>
> 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.
that is a pig in a poke.
> 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
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> Oxford
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>
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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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