Re: Understanding the many versions of IRIX/MIPSpro compilers...

From: Neil Rothwell (neil_at_rothers.demon.co.uk)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:32:29 +0000

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:53:31 +0100, Rudi Hoeben <rudi@neiden.ugent.be> wrote:

>David Anderson wrote:
>
>> Not till IRIX 6.5 was IRIX all-system again.
>> (as it still is with IRIX 6.5.25, though various obsolete
>> machines have fallen off the list, 6.5.22 is the last
>> that supports O2 R5K for example).
>
>Why do I have an O2 R5K running on 6.5.27 then ? To my knowledge,
>all O2's are still supported under the current releases of IRIX.
>I thought the support was dependent on the model, not on the CPU
>(Indigo2 R10K and Indy R5K are not supoorted beyond 6.5.22, O2 R5K and
>O2 R10K both are).

True, IP32 still works fine with the greatest and latest IRIX.

See https://support.sgi.com/content_request/155036/index.html

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