I keep seeing adobe photoshop (like 3 or 4) and illustrator software for IRIX on ebay... i'm wondering if these programs will run on the latest hardware like the Octane 2? Is this software 64bit or 32?
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foetz wrote:
mefull wrote:
Thaidog wrote:
I keep seeing adobe photoshop (like 3 or 4) and illustrator software for IRIX on ebay... i'm wondering if these programs will run on the latest hardware like the Octane 2? Is this software 64bit or 32?
The problem with buying these on ebay is that you won't be able to get a licence from Adobe to install these on your machine. As far as I know Adobe does not support either program on Irix anymore.
If you really want to run those you need to buy a machine with it already installed.
Maybe someone else on this list knows a contact at Adobe to get a new licence?
adobe won't sell new lics.
So they don't just have serial number installers like the mac and pc versions?
Is there a complie for IBM http server for IRIX?
SGI equipment is just sexy... I've always loved it. Maybe too much. I think everybody else in the industry gets there inspiration from SGI. Not to mention all the good software was pioneered at SGI... like opengl.
It pains me to see SGI at the stock price it's at right now... I'd clean the bathrooms out for minimum wage if they called me up and asked me to.
It pains me to see SGI at the stock price it's at right now... I'd clean the bathrooms out for minimum wage if they called me up and asked me to.
Dubhthach wrote:
As for the workstation, i find it interesting that they are going with twin AGP 8x, surely dual PCI-E 16x would have been better (well from a SLI point of view)
Actually for the time being AGP is still more optimized than PCI-E. This is especially true for Linux. AGP has a facility, the aperture that can be marked as "write-combined" with video memory and system memory that has been allocated to the aperture. PCI-E lacks the aperture function which makes it perform slower even at 16X in certain situations. PAT (Page Table Attribute) support is making it's way in to the 2.6 kernel but has not been released yet. PAT functionality can decrease the system bottleneck associated with heavy PCI-E/memory bus dependent traffic. Once it's fully supported PCI-E will be a lot faster than what it is now.
That thing is Badass! If I had 8500 I'd buy it. The only question I have is will it be used for Discreet products?
PS Windows XP support has been pulled from the Itanium line so you'll have to run a server version of Windows if it's going to run one.
PS Windows XP support has been pulled from the Itanium line so you'll have to run a server version of Windows if it's going to run one.
You might want to check out what Turbo Linux did with it's 10 F distro. It has a Licensed legit codec for wmv/wma on linux. Not sure if it depends on .dll files but I doubt it.
I noticed a trend at work where, time after time, a new clown makes his way in to the office who's steadily trying to convince me of their "leet skillz" and professional attitude but you mention the name "SGI" and they have absolutely no clue who you're talking about... Now I can take in to consideration the situation that SGI is now.. but 10 years ago it was SGI, IBM, MSFT...etc. We're talking about a company that pioneered the "workstation" and all but coined "virtual reality".
A sharp *pain" hits my cerebral cortex time after time I hear "SGI?" Who's that?!!
A sharp *pain" hits my cerebral cortex time after time I hear "SGI?" Who's that?!!
Stonent wrote: I guess the graphical people would use SGI at work and Mac at home, but I certainly couldn't see Unixy people using SGI at work and a Mac at home (at least in pre-osx days)
True. Why would you want to?
assyrix wrote: And why should they. The world has moved on.
As late as two years ago I was putting my first film together exclusively on the Octane but now I use a laptop for 95% of the post and the Octane only for some retouching and compositing stuff. It's just too cumbersome to get footage in and out of it and in the end the result looks the same most of the time.
Right but an IT pro shuld know their computer history... film editing is a different field completely.