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Wrote on the subject of AlphaNT at Jan. 13, 2013, 10:25 p.m...

Lupin_the_3rd wrote:

mia wrote:

Next steps: Microsoft Word 97, Excel 97, Visual C++ 6.0 and FX!32.

Were those things available for Alpha? I don't remember them if they were. Or are you installing the x86 version and running them with the fx32 emulator?

They were indeed available for AlphaNT. They are amazingly fast there.

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Wrote on the subject of really straight wiring... at Jan. 18, 2013, 10:26 p.m...

shopped!

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Wrote on the subject of Infinite Reality vs. Infinite Performance at Jan. 20, 2013, 12:06 p.m...

Is there any difference between an Onyx 350 (with v12) and Tezro rackmount besides the faceplate?

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Wrote on the subject of Anyone hacked a Dallas DS1235YW? at Jan. 20, 2013, 6:37 p.m...

find a creative way to always keep it powered (5V) from a Li-Ion or something, it will "think" the Scope is always on, so won't lose its contents. This probably draws 0.1W, so any 5V Li-Ion will probably work for months. Do you think you can't source a "new" DS1235YW?

This Scope is top-notch though, so please don't ever throw it away.

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Wrote on the subject of Infinite Reality vs. Infinite Performance at Jan. 20, 2013, 6:55 p.m...

hamei wrote:

mia wrote:

Is there any difference between an Onyx 350 (with v12) and Tezro rackmount besides the faceplate?

Nope. The two are one and the same.

He's talking about a g-brick tho.

I see so you could technically numalink a Tezro and Onyx350(v12) and end up with a dual V12 with either 2 or 4 DVI out? This would be clearly more pleasant than a g-brick itself.

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Wrote on the subject of Irix on reddit at Jan. 20, 2013, 8:23 p.m...

no drive?

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Wrote on the subject of Linux on a O2 at Jan. 20, 2013, 10:52 p.m...

http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html

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Wrote on the subject of So I nabbed a 164LX Alpha board... at Feb. 6, 2013, 9:27 p.m...

very good choice, you can't go wrong with the 164lx.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI and AW swag and promo stuff at Feb. 16, 2013, 5:22 p.m...

haha, that's awesome.

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Wrote on the subject of 3dLabs Graphics Cards at Feb. 18, 2013, 12:19 p.m...

nice collection of cards, hope they find a good home.

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Wrote on the subject of Tezro: 4x700mhz | 8GB | DCD | V12 | SAS | FIBER at Feb. 18, 2013, 1:28 p.m...

Could you please run some disk benchmark:
mkfile 4g testfile
diskperf -W -D -r 4k -m 4m testfile

Thanks!

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Wrote on the subject of Tezro: 4x700mhz | 8GB | DCD | V12 | SAS | FIBER at Feb. 18, 2013, 5:24 p.m...

thanks a lot!

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Wrote on the subject of Tezro: 4x700mhz | 8GB | DCD | V12 | SAS | FIBER at Feb. 18, 2013, 5:27 p.m...

Do you have more ssds to try on? This one is an old generation...

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Wrote on the subject of Tezro: 4x700mhz | 8GB | DCD | V12 | SAS | FIBER at Feb. 18, 2013, 7:58 p.m...

Great, thank you for taking the time, I was hoping you might also have some more recent SSDs?

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Wrote on the subject of Tezro: 4x700mhz | 8GB | DCD | V12 | SAS | FIBER at Feb. 18, 2013, 8:22 p.m...

Adrenaline wrote: I just got a pair of the new 128gb Samsung 840 Pros, but those went into my primary PC. I have a pair of Corsair Force GT 90s I could benchmark (the Samsung's replaced these) and a OCZ Vertex 4. If I get some time this week after work I'll benchmark the others, but it may take until Saturday to do.

Wow, I'd really like to see how the Vertex4 performs, especially compared to the Corsair and Samsung. Thank you for benchmarking those, this is seriously great.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI 0300 NVRAM issue at Feb. 19, 2013, 4:03 p.m...

As recondas pointed out, I bought a M4T28-BR12SH1 to fix a similar issue I was getting on a Origin 350, and it worked. Odds are, it will work for you too.

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Wrote on the subject of Tezro: 4x700mhz | 8GB | DCD | V12 | SAS | FIBER at Feb. 20, 2013, 9:13 p.m...

ping!

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Wrote on the subject of png squeezing at Feb. 20, 2013, 9:24 p.m...

thank you hamei

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Wrote on the subject of Good time to buy a T-1000/T-2000 at Feb. 22, 2013, 3:22 p.m...

Yes and no, maybe I can elaborate a little here.

You can run the Sparc T1 cpu on a Xilinx ML410/ML411 "motherboard" if you flash the fpga with the proper T1 microcode (available). Then you can throw all that in a pc-case.

FYI: a T1k or T2k is much cheaper, and way less trouble, much faster too; the other one is good for troubleshooting cpu issues really.

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Wrote on the subject of A delicate request at Feb. 23, 2013, 11:04 a.m...

The difference is that the bible is fictional, while the rapes are real; regardless where they occur.

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Wrote on the subject of New-to-Me HP 9000/375 at Feb. 23, 2013, 7:59 p.m...

very nice!

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Wrote on the subject of Tezro: 4x700mhz | 8GB | DCD | V12 | SAS | FIBER at Feb. 24, 2013, 7:49 p.m...

Any luck!?

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Wrote on the subject of Origin 300. 24xR14000 600MHz. 22GB. Onyx4 skins at March 2, 2013, 8:04 p.m...

Yes, I admit, very very nice system.

How much power does it draw?

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Wrote on the subject of nfs.sw.dskless_client at March 3, 2013, 12:39 p.m...

Please remind me why this isn't working.

Code:

bishop 15# versions | grep nfs.sw

I  nfs.sw               08/22/2010  NFS Software

I  nfs.sw.autofs        08/22/2010  AutoFS Support

I  nfs.sw.nfs           08/22/2010  NFS Support

I  nfs.sw.nis           08/22/2010  NIS (formerly Yellow Pages) Support

bishop 16# inst -f /root/installation_tools_and_overlays-1_of_3-august_2006/dist -f /root/onc3_nfs_version_3/dist6.5

[...]

Inst> keep *

[...]

Inst> list nfs.sw.dskless_client

View:      distribution

Status:    N=new, U=upgrade, S=same, D=downgrade

Stream:    maint

Selection: i=install, r=remove, k=keep

Subsystem Types [bdroc]:  b=reBoot needed, d=Default, r=Required, o=overlay,

c=Client only

/root/installation_tools_and_overlays-1_of_3-august_2006/dist:

N  nfs.sw.dskless_client [oc]       312+  Diskless Client Support

Disk space summary (Kbytes):            /

Current free space              290778528

- Selections net change                 0

- Temporary inst overhead               0

= Minimum free during install   290778528

Final projected free space      290778528

Inst> install nfs.sw.dskless_client

Inst> conf

No conflicts

Inst> go

ERROR: Nothing selected for installation.

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Wrote on the subject of nfs.sw.dskless_client at March 4, 2013, 3:30 a.m...

jan-jaap wrote:

The required nfs.sw.dskless_client base system is part of nfs.sw, but apparently not installed by default.

But look, there's a 'I', hence nfs.sw is installed, but not nfs.sw.dskless_client.

Quote:

I nfs.sw 08/22/2010 NFS Software

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Wrote on the subject of nfs.sw.dskless_client at March 4, 2013, 8:54 a.m...

Jan-Jaap, I understand what you're saying, but look at the first post, I'm trying to install nfs.sw.dskless_client, and it just doesn't install anything, so I'm very confused as of what steps are required to add nfs.sw.dskless_client to my system.

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Wrote on the subject of Origin 300. 24xR14000 600MHz. 22GB. Onyx4 skins at March 9, 2013, 9:19 a.m...

If you get around it, please tell us what the power consumption is like...

Thanks!

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Wrote on the subject of nfs.sw.dskless_client at March 9, 2013, 3:13 p.m...

Nah, that's for an IP35, truth is, I realized that nfs.sw.dskless_client is useless, nfs root works well with or without it. That probably means it would work on the IP27 as well, I'll give it a shot when I have a minute.

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Wrote on the subject of nfs.sw.dskless_client at March 9, 2013, 7:19 p.m...

Ah right, makes sense.

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Wrote on the subject of Back in the day at March 12, 2013, 9:06 p.m...

seriously impressive.

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Wrote on the subject of Sparc emulator at March 15, 2013, 3:21 a.m...

I found this enjoyable:

http://www.stromasys.com/products/charo ... -download/

Works great.

I haven't tried Nextstep (thanks P. for the idea), nor Open/Net BSD or Linux, let me know if it works for you. I have a few SunOS 4.1.3_U1 applications that could use that stuff; but honestly, this is more like a playground to me.

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Wrote on the subject of Irix Text Editor (GUI) at March 15, 2013, 7:28 a.m...

I use jasspa micro-emacs; while I use the terminal version, I think there's also a gui version for people who prefer that. I wouldn't consider anything else, and works admirably on other architectures as well (alas, no vms...)

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Wrote on the subject of Shortly to be the proud owner of a Fuel at March 17, 2013, 7:55 p.m...

pretty big step up from the indy.
Nice box (so is the indy).

I used my Fuel as a desktop for many years, mostly for email + mathematica; and, occasionally to watch movies; a really nice workstation, without a doubt, very capable, even today.

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Wrote on the subject of Shortly to be the proud owner of a Fuel at March 17, 2013, 9:08 p.m...

@ClassicHasClass: Funny, I never really use the graphical capabilities of my Fuel, mostly MIPSpro and Mathematica, I had a V12 octane before that, so I've never really seen a big change, nevertheless, it's still a very capable box, are you going to move it to gigE?

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Wrote on the subject of Neat looking hobby Z-80 system at March 26, 2013, 6:50 p.m...

nice, thanks for sharing this. Can this run CP/M?

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Wrote on the subject of Indigo2, R4400@250MHz, Extreme Gfx, 320MB Ram. New Images.. at April 5, 2013, 8:28 a.m...

damn, I had the same exact one, the gfx died eventually (solid impact).

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Wrote on the subject of So I nabbed a 164LX Alpha board... at April 7, 2013, 8:07 p.m...

Now maybe you can install Tru64 and help me make pkgsrc builds

My box isn't really snappy.

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Wrote on the subject of New-to-Me HP 9000/375 at April 9, 2013, 6:21 p.m...

smj,

I've used one like this, back in the nineties to draw bode plots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bode_plot .

The one I used was a 9000/320, manufactured in 1985; with interfaces going to different measurement appliances used in filters and antenna design. I can not recall which software was used; but maybe this will sound familiar to one of you.

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Wrote on the subject of SATA in O2 with ARS-2160H at April 11, 2013, 8:47 p.m...

Make sure to run diskperf this could be interesting.

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Wrote on the subject of New-to-Me HP 9000/375 at April 13, 2013, 9:12 a.m...

I moved to 2013Q1, and this is what I've built so far, as you will see, it's a good start:

Code:

autoconf-2.69nb1.tgz         f2c-20100903.tgz             libgetopt-1.4.4.tgz          p5-gettext-1.05nb8.tgz       tnftp-20070806.tgz

autoconf213-2.13nb2.tgz      fib-980203.tgz               libiconv-1.14nb2.tgz         pax-20080110nb2.tgz          top-3.6.1nb1.tgz

automake-1.13.1.tgz          flex-2.5.36nb1.tgz           libpcap-1.3.0nb2.tgz         pcre-8.32.tgz                unzip-6.0nb1.tgz

automake14-1.4.6nb2.tgz      gettext-lib-0.18.2.1.tgz     libslang2-2.2.4nb2.tgz       perl-5.16.2nb4.tgz           vim-7.3.762.tgz

bash-4.2nb2.tgz              gettext-tools-0.18.2.1.tgz   libtool-base-2.2.6bnb8.tgz   pgp-2.6.3ianb1.tgz           vim-share-7.3.762.tgz

bash-completion-1.0nb1.tgz   gmake-3.82nb5.tgz            lynx-2.8.7nb5.tgz            pgp5-5.0inb1.tgz             wget-1.14nb2.tgz

bison-2.7.tgz                gnupg-1.4.13nb2.tgz          m4-1.4.16nb3.tgz             pkg-config-0.28.tgz          xorg-cf-files-1.0.4nb5.tgz

bzip2-1.0.6.tgz              gtar-base-1.26nb2.tgz        makedepend-1.0.4.tgz         pkg_install-info-4.5nb3.tgz  xproto-7.0.23nb2.tgz

compat_headers-0.2.tgz       gtexinfo-4.13anb1.tgz        mktemp-1.7.tgz               readline-6.2.tgz             xz-5.0.4.tgz

coreutils-8.13nb5.tgz        help2man-1.40.13.tgz         nbench-2.2.2.tgz             rsync-3.0.9nb1.tgz           zip-3.0nb2.tgz

curl-7.29.0nb2.tgz           imake-1.0.5.tgz              nbpatch-20100124.tgz         screen-4.0.3nb5.tgz          zlib-1.2.7.tgz

digest-20121220.tgz          kbproto-1.0.6.tgz            openssh-5.8.2nb8.tgz         sudo-1.7.10p7.tgz

emacs22-nox11-22.3nb4.tgz    libffi-3.0.12.tgz            osabi-OSF1-5.1.tgz           tcp_wrappers-7.6.4.tgz

I'd appreciate if someone could help me build more packages of course; I'm bootstrapping with ccc (Compaq CC?) instead of gcc, for better results. I'm really happy I was able to build all the "essentials".

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