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Bill622
From Sherbrooke, QC
Who joined Feb. 20, 2009, 6:47 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Fractal benchmark at Oct. 6, 2009, 5:18 p.m...

Any chance to have an executable version for my O2?


   # ./fractbatch: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.
   

   # file fractbatch
   

   fractbatch:     ELF 64-bit MSB mips-4 dynamic executable (not stripped) MIPS - version 1
   

   #

I'm just curious...

Strangly, girls talks to me when I walk with my O2?!

R12k @ 300MHz, 384Mb Ram

Bill622
From Sherbrooke, QC
Who joined Feb. 20, 2009, 6:47 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Fractal benchmark at Oct. 13, 2009, 6:18 a.m...

Martin Steen wrote: Is the O2 not a 64-bit-machine?
It's 10 years ago that I worked on a O2.

Here is another executable for you, compiled with compiler-switches -n32 -mips3:
http://www.martin-steen.de/sgi/n32/fractbatch.gz

Best regards,
Martin

Thanks for the new compiled version. Here is my O2 work time for run1.sh:

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   real    3m2.04s
   

   user    2m58.60s
   

   sys     0m0.34s

And this is for run2.sh:

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   real    3h13m53.64s
   

   user    3h10m24.12s
   

   sys     0m21.15s

Strangly, girls talks to me when I walk with my O2?!

R12k @ 300MHz, 384Mb Ram

Bill622
Who joined Feb. 20, 2009, 6:47 a.m.
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Wrote on the subject of Ayam 1.16 at Nov. 3, 2009, 10:04 a.m...

Hi,
I work at the University of Sherbrooke (Canada) and I have found someone with an old Softimage 3.8 CD. Since I have a O2, I was really curious to see how Softimage runs on Irix. Unfortunatly, it is an old CD and while installing it, I have a corrupted file.

This is a test:

Code:

  bash-2.05a$ uncompress Minerva.tar.Z
  
  Minerva.tar.Z: corrupt data, unable to decompress
  
  bash-2.05a$

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. I TOTALLY understand the Nekochan goals is not to encourage piracy. I just want to know if anyone have the same version installation CD and could send me this file, not the whole software.

Thanks! and if this post is against any rule, I understand it can be deleted.

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Bill622
Who joined Feb. 20, 2009, 6:47 a.m.
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Wrote on the subject of Ayam 1.16 at Nov. 3, 2009, 4:15 p.m...

SAQ wrote:

What exactly is Minerva? I'm not a SI|3D person, but it sure sounds like it might be a sample/example/demo type file, and SI might run just fine without it.

Don't know the content, but it is needed for the Base installation.

ajerimez wrote:

To the OP: does your O2 really get you attention from women? The girls that have seen mine have been pretty indifferent toward it.

When I brought home my O2, I talked to 3-4 girls from my office to my car in the parking lot. They were all like:"wow, what is this? is it a computer? it is so cute!" Seriously, I create the same effect on chicks when I'm shopping with my 3 month old baby girl.

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Bill622
Who joined Feb. 20, 2009, 6:47 a.m.
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Wrote on the subject of Ayam 1.16 at Nov. 3, 2009, 5:52 p.m...

henrycault wrote:

Bill622 wrote:

When I brought home my O2, I talked to 3-4 girls from my office to my car in the parking lot..

Really??? When i brought home my O2k, people were fleeing the streets in fear that the poor toyota echo would lose brakes.

I guess Canadian chicks are more opened mind :lol:

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Bill622
Who joined Feb. 20, 2009, 6:47 a.m.
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Wrote on the subject of Ayam 1.16 at Nov. 5, 2009, 6:16 p.m...

foetz wrote:

did you try to copy the cd to disk first? sometimes it's just a read error although the cd is fine

Yup, I tried that, same result. Actually, the CD is in bad shape, it take a while to copy its content and I often hear a "repetition" noise from the drive. You know, when the drive tries and tries to read something... the corruption seams to be only on this file.

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Bill622
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Wrote on the subject of O2 vs Octane (same CPU) at Feb. 9, 2010, 6:57 p.m...

Hi,
I was wondering how faster is the Octane compared to the O2. For example, my O2 got a R12000 300MHz CPU and I know it is available on the Octane in a single CPU configuration. Knowing the architecture of these computers are different, I would like to know how much faster the Octane can be.

Any benchmark tool we can use to compare? These tests have already been done?

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Bill622
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Wrote on the subject of O2 vs Octane (same CPU) at Feb. 9, 2010, 7:24 p.m...

Wow! thanks for these numbers. I am surprised how slow the O2 is, even compared to an Indigo 2 which is technicaly a generation before.

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Bill622
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Wrote on the subject of O2 vs Octane (same CPU) at Feb. 11, 2010, 8:14 a.m...

tomo wrote:

yes yes O2 is generally slow

That is why I'm from time to time thinking about decent octane

Yup! me too! ...

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Bill622
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Wrote on the subject of O2 vs Octane (same CPU) at Feb. 11, 2010, 2:07 p.m...

recondas wrote:

If your goal is a general purpose IRIX desktop for daily use, I'd suggest skipping over the Octane and going to a 600MHz or faster Fuel. Or keep the O2/Octane and use them as the display for an O300 or O350.

Hum, but the Fuel looks like a red painted PC to me

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Bill622
Who joined Feb. 20, 2009, 6:47 a.m.
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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.48 - Alpha rev c - "Yafray, FFmpeg, 64 threads" at May 26, 2010, 3:54 a.m...

Excuse my ignorance but: what is Matador ?

Even if I don't it, it's interesting to know that old SGI hardware is still in production. I guess they'll use their Octane2 until the end of support of Irix, well probably beyond that...

Very interesting thread.

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Bill622
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Wrote on the subject of Slow Spheres at June 8, 2010, 4:53 a.m...

Newbie question: could it be used as a screen saver on my SGI ?

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Bill622
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Wrote on the subject of Workstations and PDP-11s for grabs in Ottawa, Canada at June 17, 2010, 5:35 a.m...

PM Sent...

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Strangly, girls talks to me when I walk with my O2?!

R12k @ 300MHz, 384Mb Ram

Bill622
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Who joined Feb. 20, 2009, 7:47 a.m.
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Wrote on the subject of Starting with 3D Modeling (Softimage|3D, Maya, Blender) at June 20, 2010, 3:45 a.m...

I don't think Wildfire is free like blender when its name starts with "Pro/Engineer Wildfire".

While ago, I had to do CAD modeling and I started with Pro/Engineer and the learning curve was really fast. I wish I could get it for my O2...

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Strangly, girls talks to me when I walk with my O2?!

R12k @ 300MHz, 384Mb Ram

Bill622
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Wrote on the subject of Workstations and PDP-11s for grabs in Ottawa, Canada at June 29, 2010, 6:26 p.m...

anything new about this?

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Strangly, girls talks to me when I walk with my O2?!

R12k @ 300MHz, 384Mb Ram

Bill622
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Wrote on the subject of Workstations and PDP-11s for grabs in Ottawa, Canada at June 30, 2010, 3:38 a.m...

bummer...

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R12k @ 300MHz, 384Mb Ram

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