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hi guys
i am looking for one of the following machine

• A7000+, ARM710 @ 48Mhz
• RiscPC/700 2 slot with Strong Arm @ 200Mhz
• Iyonix

also i'd like special hardware, like

• 486DX4@100Mhz guest board for Risc/PC
• scsi board for A7000+ or Risc/PC

i wander which is the best for me, i'd also like to buy the DEE kit (C/asm compiler + debugger for arm)

i have OS/2 v3 NET, original CD & floppy, but i do not have any v4, sorry

i need an SMP module for Octane2 (IP30), as i want to toy with the linux kernel

i don't know if the Origin 300 is supported, never seen that branch, but i am afraid it is not (i may be wrong)

ebay, USA, for example

oh well, I need just the FP1

ajw99uk wrote: but note that some won't take kindly to confusing Acorn RISCOS with MIPS RISC/os!

MIPS RISC/os ? what is it exactly ?

ajw99uk wrote: For the SCSI card, do you have any specific requirements?

i do not want Centronics, but i do not know hw details about what is existing for Acorn machines
chrisacorns.computinghistory will teach me a lot

ajw99uk wrote: You might also be interested in the Mico and Riscstation … and in the Microdigital Omega

never seen, i do not know them

what about prices ?
how much should be a RiscPC with StrongArm @ 200 Mhz ?

i have not decided if to buy an A7000+ or a RiscPC
in case of RiscPC, i like to buy SCSI and a guestCPU 486card

@surrealdeal

here it is, on ebay dot com


see by yourself if you do not trust me




SILICON GRAPHICS SGI 030-0891-003 OCTANE FP1 FRONT PLANE BOARD XBOW 1.4
Price:US $250.00 Buy It Now
Shipping: $44.53 International Priority Shipping to Italy via the Global Shipping Program


that's insane, 250 USD just for the front plane X________________X

i know Kumba, i emailed him a lot of time, and we discussed on the gentoo forum: we have different opinion about linux

• i am improving 2.6.17, i am alone, but i already have a working machine with a few minor bugs to be fixed and features to be added
• he is trying to fix 3.* series,he hasn't a working machine (with SMP) and he is alone

nobody today want to spend free time on Octane, so … that is my opinion: improve the 2.6.17, and enjoy it!

also, personally i am following MIPS32 on things like Atheros SoC, or CI20)

my friend has

• Impact R10 @ 195Mhz
• SolidImpact graphics board
• it boots from an external scsi hard drive.

i am experimenting a slowdown on the console, e.g. more than 10 seconds to wait since you click on "console", to when it really appears on the monitor, while exporting things through the lan, and using them remotely with X11 client, has no slowdown

i really wander what could be wrong

any idea ?

chicaneuk wrote: I’m rather surprised at how fast the system feels - actually feels more nimble than my R12K O2

I’m rather surprised about that: my O2+ with R12K @ 400Mhz is faster than my friend's impact R10K @ 195Mhz
the feeling you have sitting in front of the machine is that O2+ is faster than impact
and Mathematica for Irix completes things faster

but, may be there is something wrong in the Impact of my friends, perhaps … about his Irix installation.

Trippynet wrote: It's possible to get full 100Mb networking with the Indigo2, but then you need the GIO expansion card and these are a lot more expensive (and rare).

i am afraid i have not understood which netlan you are talking about, never seen other options except the Phobos
any link, or "research key" (for google) in order to better understand this -real-100Mbit/sec card for Ip28 ?

yeah, it may be
any other causes ?


i will check the networks setup
as soon as i will have an access to the machine

if the harddrive was faulty then i would have issues using the machine remotely (1) too, while i have not: issues are ONLY if the machine is used locally

the hard drive is a brand new unit, the scsi cable and the external box have been heavily tested with linux: not issues about that


(1) exporting x11-display through ssh is working perfectly without any performance lost, when i launch Wordpefect remotely i get it in less than 1 second, while using the machine locally has up to 10 second of delay when i click on everything i can click on the desktop, it's really too slow to launch things

@mopar5150
i live in italy, and i am a working student
actually i am working in Bologna, which is 250Km from where i live (Milano)
these two cites are both sited in the North part of Italy

disabling the networks (put it off) has fixed the issue. Now i have to understand exactly what is wrong.

thank you for your tips

hi guys
a friend of mine has given me his Impact just to make me toy with it, it's an Irix Impact (IP28) box with Irix on, i am not used to play with irix, as i am toying with linux on my Octane2 (IP30)

so, i do not have any experience about License for compilers, on my linux box i simply use gcc

it seems i have to use MIPS Pro Compiler for project like the following



it says i need a license for MIPSpro C Compiler , so .. how to buy/find it ?

ops, using the right "search key" google has find this full explanation about

i already have installed gcc for Irix, i am able to recompile a few o my linux text-console applications, e.g. i have written a text editor, just for fun, which i am recycled to code a TAP-debugger interface.


is there any student discount to buy the MIPSpro C Compiler's license ?
in the web pace i have linked it is written business only, but it seems the information is pretty old 2010 at least, so any news since than ?
i'd like to have a license, but i do not have any business ticket as i am a student.





my text editor, coded in Ansi C, compiled with gcc, recycled for an other project: a TAP machine debugger interface

bad news =(

i have found a bit of thread in this forum, like this , or this , and i am reading them, but i have understood that … the conclusion is: ask a friend if he/she can provide a license, because you can't buy it =(

i am also reading about license manager

smj wrote: I'm glad that the problem you were seeing seems to be due to the networking, which you can now correct.

fixed, i removed "DNS", definitively, and forced "file"
now it takes less than 1 second to launch a local console

smj wrote: all the math is happening on the main CPU, not in the gfx system.

yes

R10K @195Mhz (indigo2) vs R12K@400Mhz (O2+)
200Mhz of difference about the CPU clock
and Mathematica do a lot of CPU calculations

my friend has a " SolidImpact gfx " in the his indigo2 , it should be the low cost gfx for Impact
he said me he had a " Maximum Impact gfx ", which was 3 boards mounted one near the other
and he sold out because he did not use

i should also try Maya-v5, sooner, or later

what Irix Application can make the heavy use of the gfx instead of the cpu ?

has anyone had success with OS/2 Warp Net v3 on PCMCIA 3COM lan card ?

hi
i have an Octane2 and O2+, my friend has an Impact, i am a working student, so i have to travel a lot by car; for such a reason the O2+ is my best liked: because it heavy the less when i have to carry it into my car

also the O2+ R12K is not supported by linux because of the R12K module so i put on Irix and i am used to play linux only on octane2.

i feel the IP30 as an "heavy an noisy machine", so i have put "the heavy big iron" remotely somewhere in the room under my father's roof. There is a RTT latency of a few secnds but i am able to access the machine remotely by SSH + an uart connection on the console. I have set the environment to route the console to the uart instead of on the keyboard and monitor, also i have connected an arduino + enc-lan with a rele-shield in order to hard reset and power on/off the machine, remotely.

and, surprisingly it works!

i have the full remote control, i really do no need to sit in front the machine

on Octane2 i am used to play with

• linux kernel 2.6.17, hacking this, and that with success of pretty hell disaster
• gentoo MIPS3 stage4 (that is compatible with my MIPS32 router, but the IP30 has more CPU power about natively compile things, and it's 10 time faster)

i have an original copy of IRIX 6.5.27 but i haven't installed it yet, so my IP30 is used only to toy with linux

while on my O2+ i can't run linux, i do not like *BSD, so i have installed Irix 6.5.19, which i am used to play with

• Mathematica for Irix, a wonderful program
• WordPerfect for Unix
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• a few freeware software like nano, nedit, abiword, etc
• gcc for Irix, which i used to code my C sources toys
• MIPS C Pro, is in my wish list
• i think i will be able to run Maya on O2+, too (sooner or later)

btw, on my curiosity is strong: which is your hardware ? and for which purpose do you use your MIPS-SGI-box ?

ladies ?

TeamBlackFox wrote: My Octane sees a lot of use, as does my O300

and what about your Irix applications ? What do you run on your Irix box ?

josehill wrote: One of the best investments I ever made for working with SGI equipment was a pair of good quality, noise canceling headphones

still too noisy here

@TeamBlackFox
i have an original CD of Pro/E for UNIX, i have never used it, also i do not know anything about its license

which CAD do you use ?

here i have a copy of maya v5, which is not a CAD, but it is the only 3D application i know for Irix

the purpose of this thread is also to understand what i could eventually run on my Irix box as i really do not know anything about Irix's Applications.

Trippynet wrote: On the O2, I replaced the PSU fan with a Nocturna one (a common mod) and it's now VERY quiet

very cool ! can you tell me more ?

my O2+ is not exactly quiet, i mean it does a bit of noise, less noise if compared to my Octane2, which is extremely noisy !

duck wrote: Before

brain storming is not answered yet

@TeamBlackFox
if you want to try Pro/E for Unix, i can put it somewhere, but … you have to think about the license, i do not really know anything.

uunix wrote: C&G C/C++

today i have installed MIPSProC with a license for C only (no fortran or C++)
i can do something now

recondas wrote: http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/Catalog_of ... X_software

Thank you, i didn't see this catalog list, and it's very interesting for me because there are a lot of Applications i don't know.

This thread is also good for me as "brain storming", which is also useful to meet people of real hobby usage =)

for sale

• CPU 1x12K @ 400Mhz
• Octane2 motherboard
• 500Mbyte of ram
• Oddysey V6 gfx
• PSU (missing handle)

GIJoe wrote: the (optional) PCI cardcage also has it's own little fan built in from what I remember.

yes, i have the PCI card cage, and i confirm!

i wish i have MATLAB for Irix, it's simply marvelous

@josehill

I merged the topics. It took a while for me to figure out how to do it with the new version of phpBB. I wanted to be sure I didn't mess up an important, historic thread.

thank you, i haven't seen the existing thread

wonderful, i wish i ware able to use Alias PowerAnimator v6, too
i mean, learning it, before, it seems a guy has a lot to learn

which machine do you have guys, to run this marvelous application ?
i think an O2+/R12K is not enough, am i wrong ?

which is the equivalent Application for a modern SGI/MIPS workstation (Octane/Fuel) ?