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spoonified
Who joined May 23, 2010, 11:58 p.m.
Wrote on the subject of Suitable OS for SGI1100 and SGI1200? at Aug. 24, 2010, 8:49 p.m...
I had a couple SGI 1100 several years back although being rather plan and nothing fancy with them they were really insanely stable boards. When I first ran the Windows Whistler Beta on it I had an uptime of over 200 days. I also never had any issues running most popular flavors of linux. There is no uncommon or less common hardware on them and if I remember right the motherboards were actually OEMed from Intel and used ServerWorks chipsets. I even used the motherboard out of one in my workstation from 2000 to 2004. The only real issue I had with them is that almost all sound cards would prevent the system from POSTing and I was forced to use a USB sound card if I wanted sound.

Spoon
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Alpha DS40, Power Station, PowerServer 550L, IBM PS/2 L40 (running AIX 1.3), Sun 3/60, Alpha Server 200, VAXstation 4000, and Tadpole SparcBook
spoonified
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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.48 - Alpha rev c - "Yafray, FFmpeg, 64 threads" at Aug. 25, 2010, 11:21 p.m...
I do have great memories of playing the quake port on my Onyx RE2 with performance that put my gaming PC at the time to shame.

One thing that always got me is the tank simulator, I can't remember if it was included with a full install of irix or off of one of the IndyZone disks. Shortly after I joined the army I got to use the tank simulator and it was identical to the sgi one. I always figured they had an old SGI Crimson behind the sceans driving it with a custom made cockpit to feel like a Abrams tank.

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Alpha DS40, Power Station, PowerServer 550L, IBM PS/2 L40 (running AIX 1.3), Sun 3/60, Alpha Server 200, VAXstation 4000, and Tadpole SparcBook
spoonified
Who joined May 23, 2010, 10:58 p.m.
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Wrote on the subject of Cheap but Powerful UltraSPARC under $500 at Feb. 8, 2011, 1:55 a.m...
Are you looking for more of a Sparc based server or workstation. If you are looking for a workstation I would almost say a Blade 2500.

For a single 1.28GHz you are looking at about £120.00
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sun-Blade-2500-1- ... 560wt_1127

Or a dual 1.28GHZ for around £340.00
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sun-Blade-2500-2- ... 853wt_1127

I am personally a fan of these systems because it is really easy to upgrade the RAM (DDR) and for most software applications the performance increase with newer processors is fairly minimal. Also with power consumption they are the same as most desktop PC's. Mine is a Dual 1.28 w/4 GB RAM and the 400Watt power supply is more then enough. My Quad 1.? GHz V440 with 32GB RAM draws about 3 to 4 times the power (and is 10 times louder) so to me going with more procs and possibly more RAM isn't necessary unless you know you will need it.

Other nice little features I noticed with the Red 2500's is if you have the latest PROM on them you can do just about everything, mine only had a CD-ROM and not a DVD-ROM so to install Solaris 10 I was able to boot off of a USB DVD-R to do the install, but I can't do that on my V440, Blade 2000, or V880.

-Spoon

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Alpha DS40, Power Station, PowerServer 550L, IBM PS/2 L40 (running AIX 1.3), Sun 3/60, Alpha Server 200, VAXstation 4000, and Tadpole SparcBook