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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of new BeOS at Dec. 1, 2004, 11:29 p.m...

Hello BeOS fan(s).

I have a brand new book entitled "The BeOS Bible" which covers
version R4 of the OS written by Scot Hacker which I'm willing to give away for free provided you pay for the shipping costs. This paperback book is a large 916 pages and is copywrite 1999.

I'm getting ready to move and need to thin out my library and SGI gear. Drop me an email at mailto:[email protected] . I live in Nevada, USA 89445.

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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of new BeOS at Dec. 2, 2004, 4:38 p.m...

You can't beat the price. .... I was just in Wells, England interviewing for a job and the prices of EVERYTHING are very expensive, twice what things cost in the US. And houses are about twice as expensive and 1/2 the size. Yikes!!! And the salary is just a tad more than what I was making here!

Alas, if I take the job I will not be able to bring over my big Iron or my gold dredges.

thegoldbug

I'm guessing that paying for shipping on this book will be much cheaper than buying it in Europe. I know what you mean though as all the cheap Onyxs seem to be on the East Coast and shipping on those is Expensive.

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Wrote on the subject of Onyx error message at June 10, 2005, 11:40 p.m...

Sometimes these error messages go away if you reboot and/or the compter warms up (if you have had it setting for a while without use). However, it can just as easily return at a moments notice while you are running and it can cause a whole system crash (on my Challenge XL). It's safer for me to just disable the cpu that's acting up rather than trust it.

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Wrote on the subject of Onyx R10k CPU board question at Aug. 28, 2005, 9:47 a.m...

Let us know how this work progresses as I'd like to give my R10ks a shot in the arm also.

I'm willing to send you an R10k board to experiment on. I think I've got at dually somewhere.

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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of Ebay: Anyone in Alaska want to grab this baby-Onyx2 IR Rack at Dec. 19, 2005, 1:42 p.m...

Yep, I saw that too but shipping on those beasts (I have 3 XL's in my garage) is expensive and they have the weight estimate on the high side so one will have to be careful if you get a shipping quote.

How can one hold the seller to the description in the text? Photos are often times borrowed form websites and are only for general reference.

I could probably look up the shipping weight on this but I would guess it's around 500 lbs. I don't think UPS will ship it and the size is way too big. The shipping quote request doesn't work, surprise.

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Wrote on the subject of Ebay: Anyone in Alaska want to grab this baby-Onyx2 IR Rack at Dec. 19, 2005, 1:49 p.m...

Thanks for the heads-up. I never got any email replys from seller but then maybe they haven't checked their email today.

It's all yours. I haven't bid and won't.

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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of Einstein@Home for IRIX at March 5, 2006, 2:34 p.m...

I'm looking for a useful task for my SGI"s when they are on and this sounds better than Seti or Distributed.net.

Any chance you can get them loaded to the website?

thanks

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Wrote on the subject of Einstein@Home for IRIX at March 7, 2006, 7:41 p.m...

Thanks, just pulled it down and will get a machine working on it.

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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of Einstein@Home for IRIX at March 7, 2006, 9:40 p.m...

Okay, i've downloaded, unzipped now what do I run. When I try to run the boinc_client from the command line it tells me there is another version running already. So I rebooted and tried again same thing.

Some pointers please.

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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of Einstein@Home for IRIX at March 11, 2006, 12:04 p.m...

Well, I think I have it working finally.

It will only run as ROOT. When I try and start it as another user it complains that another instance is already running (when there isn't one).

It seems to be waiting for data and isn't actually running right now.

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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of Einstein@Home for IRIX at April 9, 2006, 7:01 p.m...

Boinc only wants to run as root, as a user it complains there is another version running.

Boinc_Enstein just sits there and never finds any work.

Please explain how you installed it and how you got it to work.

thanks

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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at April 27, 2006, 6:33 p.m...

Excellent. Now I can fire up my Elan.

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Wrote on the subject of Sgi Fuel for sale at March 4, 2007, 12:27 p.m...

What do you mean by cluster?

Are you running some cool software that makes them look like a single machine with multiple cpus?

If so what is the software and where can it be obtained?

thanks
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Wrote on the subject of Couple of New User Questions at Aug. 11, 2007, 11:47 a.m...

Okay, just tried this as Root and as a user but I can't get the images to show up in the Background list either. I'm running 6.5.22f with a Vpro6 graphics card. I've logged out and reboot but still no joy.

Did a solution ever get found. The references to the images are being added to my .backgrounds file.

thegoldbug
==========

These backgrounds run on platforms with ODYSSEY graphics.

background "Twilight"
command "-execute /usr/sbin/twilight"
default "-execute /usr/sbin/twilight"
exeok "/usr/sbin/twilight"

background "SGI Logo"
command "-execute /usr/demos/General_Demos/powerflip/powerflip -Rs -o -0.3426,-0.2307,-0.1561,0.8971 -p 0.5316,0.3363,-0.3676 -b /usr/demos/General_Demos/powerflip/data/background3.defs /usr/demos/General_Demos/powerflip/data/logo.ydl"
default "-execute /usr/demos/General_Demos/powerflip/powerflip -Rs -o -0.3426,-0.2307,-0.1561,0.8971 -p 0.5316,0.3363,-0.3676 -b /usr/demos/General_Demos/powerflip/data/background3.defs /usr/demos/General_Demos/powerflip/data/logo.ydl"
exeok "/usr/demos/General_Demos/powerflip/powerflip"
readok "/usr/demos/General_Demos/powerflip/data/background3.defs"
readok "/usr/demos/General_Demos/powerflip/data/logo.ydl"

background "Loading.JPG"
default "-image /HD2/MarigoldWebReportingSystem/Loading.JPG"

background "fatcat1.gif"
default "-image /HD2/0_GBC/fatcat1.gif"

background "994+190.JPG"
default "-image /HD2/MarigoldWebReportingSystem/994+190.JPG"

background "994+190.JPG"
default "-image /HD2/MarigoldWebReportingSystem/994+190.JPG"

background "Loading.JPG"
default "-image /HD2/MarigoldWebReportingSystem/Loading.JPG"

background "994+190.JPG"
default "-image /HD2/MarigoldWebReportingSystem/994+190.JPG"

background "994+190.JPG"
default "-image /HD2/MarigoldWebReportingSystem/994+190.JPG"

Cathode 23#

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Wrote on the subject of Couple of New User Questions at Aug. 11, 2007, 12:06 p.m...

Is my problem related to the fact that I haven't "prepared" my images to be backgrounds? I mean they are just normal JPGs. Do I need to "convert" them for use first?

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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of Couple of New User Questions at Aug. 11, 2007, 8:33 p.m...

Okay, been working on this and by setting the depth to 24 bit true color ( http://software.majix.org/irix/desktop-depth.shtml ) I'm able to get a background I downloaded off of Nekochan to show up in the background list.

This has worked on several of my JPG files but only after I opening them using Image editor (file, open) and save them as JPGs are the files actually recognized by IRIX as jpgs. Can someone clue me in on why that is?

thanks
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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of Who here plays WoW at Jan. 17, 2008, 9:05 p.m...

A friend finally talked me into play Guild Wars over the holidays. Yea, it's not WOW but there is no monthly fee.

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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of Complete 486 "Computer In A Keyboard" on eBay at Oct. 20, 2008, 9:27 p.m...

I have about 25 of these in various states of repair and was going to assemble them in to a Beowulf Cluster. That looks like mine which are all Pentium 200Mhz with two memory slots. The power supplies are very, very hard to come by and tend to die much sooner than the computer. I've jiggered a AT style power supply and I have it powering 4 of these at a time. Each keyboard computer draws about 30 watts. This model typically had a 4 to 6 gb hard driver, floppy drive and a single ISA slot. They have USB on the mother board but I haven't toyed with that. I put in an old SCSI card and booted WIndows 2000 from an external CD drive and I was in business. The ones I obtained (while working at a recycling center in the Bay Area) all came from the Childrens Hospital and were running Windows 95 and some Novell network software to access a central database.

There are newer models (the company is still in business) with CDs, faster CPUs, more memory, etc.

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Wrote on the subject of Sun xvr-1200 graphics driver at Jan. 2, 2009, 6:09 p.m...

I found the xvr-1200 drivers somewhere else a couple of days ago. I'm just getting acquainted with my SB-2000 which has a xvr-1000 but I have a xvr-1200 coming in the mail. Maybe next weekend I will be able to try and install the drivers. I'm pretty sure the site I downloaded the driver from said it was for Solaris 8 & 9 with no mention of Solaris 10. Will the driver work or should I just try the ones for Open Solaris?

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Wrote on the subject of Sun xvr-1200 graphics driver at Jan. 8, 2009, 1:15 p.m...

My first of two XVR-1200 video cards arrived today. I'll wait on the second to do the install.

I've been looking at the SUN MICROSYSTEMS A124PO lcds listed on eaby (24") and was wondering if the 13w3 connection they have wiill work with my SGIs? Does it sync on green?
Any general comments about the monitors?

What about the price of $250 each - do you think that is a good price.

thanks.

PS. I've posted some comments about getting Boinc running on Solaris 10 on here:

http://dotsch.phpbb8.de/unix-f14/solari ... ng-t8.html

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Wrote on the subject of Sun xvr-1200 graphics driver at Jan. 18, 2009, 9:24 a.m...

I've updated both my SB2000s and each have dual 1.015Ghz CPUs, the one has dual xvr-1200 cards and the other a single xvr-1000 video card. I've gone to the opensolaris sight and downloaded the graphics drivers binary file and I've untarred it and a whole mess of SUNW directories appear.

The xvr-1000 installation documentation (PDF from SUN's sight) instructs us to install the following software packages.
SUNWgfb.u SUNWgfbx.u SUNWgfbw SUNWgfbr SUNWgfbcf

I've searched and searched but can't find any directions on how to install these.

> pkgadd -d SUNWgfb.u
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </downloads/SUNWgfb.u>

complains there are no packages in the subdirectories yet those directories have what appear (according to my reading) to be valid subdirectory package structure (ie install, pkginfo, pkgmap, reloc).

# cd SUNWgfb.u
# ls
archive install pkginfo pkgmap reloc

------ On a separate note, I've recieved my two SUN AI24PO LCDs but one of the them was heavily scratched (I believe by the person doing the packing job) and I'm impressed by their weight/beefyness. I can't change the video resolution using fbconfig at this point (the display is out of sync when I try and increase the resolution above 1024x768) but hoping that is related to these video drivers.

Any ideas? Thanks.

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Wrote on the subject of Sun xvr-1200 graphics driver at Jan. 18, 2009, 2:30 p.m...

Thanks for the help. I had tried that command but I didn't have a space before the period.

One problem (maybe) still is that the SUNWgfbx.u packages is missing and the docs say to install that second.

I've installed the others and am rebooting now. ...

My size size has now increased to 1280x1024x67 (up from 1024x768). So far so good.

I just tried increasing to SUNW_STD_1920x1200x75 and I got the out of sync message after rebooting.

Looks like it's back to trial and error.

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Wrote on the subject of Sun xvr-1200 graphics driver at Jan. 18, 2009, 3:04 p.m...

Okay, I got it sorted out.

> fbconfig -res SUNW_DIG_1920x1200x60 now -stream a

then I rebooted and it came up full screen on my 24" monitor. Lovely.

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Wrote on the subject of Testing the waters: SGI/NeXT/FC/SUN collection (maybe) FS at Dec. 22, 2009, 7 p.m...

I'm interested in the NeXT cube but getting a thousand pounds for it even with the Dimension board sounds pretty high. If you can get that good for you.

I might be as the Impact Compression board and possibly the presenter board but shipping from Germany to the USA probably puts it out of my price range.

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Wrote on the subject of USB Keyboard / Mouse / resolution Problems (fuel) at Dec. 25, 2009, 3:35 p.m...

Okay, I've tried editing ioconfig.conf, I've rebooted, I've read both man pages and I don't see anything there about changing priorities. My default file ioconfig.conf settings are

1 /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15/pci/4/ecpp
2 /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15/pci/2/ohci/0/scsi_ctlr/0
1 /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15/pci/3a/emu_subsys
1 /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15/pci/4/keyboard
1 /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15/pci/4/mouse
3 /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/14/pci/1/scsi_ctlr/0
0 /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15/pci/5/usb/2/1/keyboard
0 /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15/pci/5/usb/2/4/mouse
2 /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15/pci/5/usb/1/1/keyboard
2 /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15/pci/5/usb/1/4/mouse

---- What column and number do I need to change ? Thanks.

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Wrote on the subject of USB Keyboard / Mouse / resolution Problems (fuel) at Dec. 27, 2009, 4:45 p.m...

Well, I've borked my Fuel and can't log in now since neither keyboard+mouse setup is recognized (PS/2 or USB). When the option to enter Maintenance shows up on the boot screen I have about 5 seconds of time when the mouse is/was recognized but seemingly never the keyboard. Now IRIX boots up to the login screen but since the keyboard is not recognized I'm not able to log in. I just changed from a fixed IP address to DHCP on Friday so I'll have to find the IP address and try and log in remotely so I can delete the ioconfig.conf file.

It's been a crummy x-mas break so far concerning hardware. I downloaded the MS Studio 2010 beta 2 to my primary Win XP machine and I've had a number of oddities and lockups. I also got around to installing an IOGEAR 4 port DVI KVM and it was generally working fine with this Sun Blade 2000, my Win XP desktop and hopefully with my Fuel. Playing with the scan mode on the KVM seems to have disconnected my mouse and keyboard from my Win XP machine although I'm using it to post this message. I guess XP hung again so maybe I should think about unistalling Studio. Studio must have installed 20 programs and required a reboot so who knows if I can unwind the problem(s).

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Wrote on the subject of Firefox 3.0.15 Gran Paradiso first run at Jan. 2, 2010, 7:59 p.m...

Thanks, that is a very nice application. Now that my Fuel is back online and connected to my KVM (and working) an 24" monitor I can play around some more.

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Wrote on the subject of "Unlimited Detail" - new rendering technology at March 27, 2010, 12:31 p.m...

On a somewhat related note the mine planning software I use (which used to run on SGI machines ~ 12 years ago) chokes when I try and triangulate more than 1.5 million data points. The points are are actually stored as topography (x,y, elevation) contours (ie. strings) and are obtained from an aerial survey company. Many of these flight companies have switched over to using LIDAR and generate billions of points (point clouds) and provide much higher resolution (detail).

The project I'm working on is approximately 24 km x 12 km and consists of about 26 million points residing in 9 rectangular "tiles". Just displaying these 26 million points on my computer screen (dual quad core Dell T5400 with 4gb of ram) is painful as the disk I/O is slow. The vendor is still a year or more away from having a 64bit software version.

To display a large topography area like this the steps recommended by our mining software vendor is to build a 2D grid of the area and then interpolate the Z elevation into each grid cell thereby avoiding the whole DTM (triangles) model. The datasets I routinely work with are large and always break the software. It took my workstation 9 hours just to build my (small grid size) gridded surface and then the software refused to display the grid.

My question is: Does anyone know of any software which can handle between 1.5 and 3.5 million points (in a single "tile") and create a DTM without crashing?

Next question: I can "thin" the points on each topography line to reduce the number of points however, the algorithm is stupid and thinning can cause adjacent lines to cross. Elevation lines can't cross (they only do this in the real world when there are cliffs and overhangs) as this "breaks" the DTM engine (in every mining or AutoCAD related program I've ever seen or used). Does anyone know of a "smart" line thinning algorithm and looks at the uphill and downhill lines to make sure deleting a point doesn't cause a problem?

I've asked 3 of the big mining software vendors and they all give me the deer in the headslight look and say that might be a useful tool. I've thought about the problem but I'm too busy doing design work to tackle this problem. I keep thinking there must be an algorithm out there somewhere. Most of the code (or ideas) that these mining software vendors use was "borrowed" from other industries and academics and they don't really create much us we as a company fund them.

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Wrote on the subject of Irix Pascal at March 27, 2010, 1:49 p.m...

I learned Pascal on a Control Data Corporation Cyber 720/120 mainframe at school and though it was pretty neat. Pointers, Linked Lists, creating your own Data Types. Oh the power and I loved the modularity compared to Fortran 4/5, MNF Fortran, etc. Much, much later Turbo Pascal came out. I got to see "Mr Borland" Philippe Kahn giving a small presentation in Salt Lake City for the release of Paradox 4.0 databases (about 1992).

Anyway there was a version of IRIX Pascal that sold ages ago on Ebay but I was outbid and I had questions about how the licensing worked.

Did it have any additional bells and whistles, speed, what did it compile to MIPS 3/4 or even PCODE.

I'd like to hear more about the IRIX version and any commerical programs that may have been coded in PASCAL.

Okay, I admit to having obtained and much, much later purchasing Pascal for my Commodore 64. Yes, I even did some of my college programming homework (early 80s) on my C64 in Pascal, COMAL and of course Basic.

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Wrote on the subject of Wanted Xbow 1.4 front plane at Dec. 31, 2012, 11:03 a.m...

Just discovered the hard way by trying to install my V12 board that my Octane 2 only has an Xbow ASIC of 1.3.

So I need a front plane with an 1.4 xbow.

I've read through the Octane manual and it states that the personality module needs to be transfered from the old front plane to the new front plane.
Is the version of the Xbow stored in the module or is the front plane electronically/mechanically different from the 1.3 Xbow?

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thegoldbug
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Wrote on the subject of [Windows] Make virtualbox image out of installed system? at Jan. 2, 2013, 5:32 p.m...

So in the end how did you complete the transfer/installation of the OS to the Virtual Box?????

I have an old PC with installed software that I would like on modern, faster hardware and I 'm lazy and don't want to do all the software reinstalls if I can just convert an image.

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel DMediaPro DM6 PCI Digital Video at Jan. 13, 2013, 8:59 a.m...

Excellent! Thanks for reactivating the site, it was very handy when I was upgrading one of my SGI 320's to 1Ghz cpus.

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Wrote on the subject of can anyone identify this part at June 26, 2013, 3:59 p.m...

Is it Helicopter?

Search for collegehumor batman helicopter on Youtube.

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Wrote on the subject of CPU Core Counts: AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, BSD, etc. at July 5, 2013, 1:02 p.m...

FYI

On my Fuel all I'm getting is the output from the uname command.

Yes, I know my Fuel only has 1 cpu but I have a couple of dual cpus in my Octanes.

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Wrote on the subject of CPU Core Counts: AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, BSD, etc. at July 6, 2013, 4:45 p.m...

Here is the output from an hinv and a hinv -c command on my Fuel

I'm running Irix 6.5.29

IRIS 45# uname -a
IRIX64 IRIS 6.5 01090133 IP35
IRIS 46#

IRIS 35# hinv
1 600 MHZ IP35 Processor
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.4
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.4
Main memory size: 1536 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 4 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 3: Version IEEE1394 SBP2
Integral SCSI controller 2: Version QL1080, low voltage differential
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, single ended
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 15 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, single ended
CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 1
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: V12
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 001c01, pci 4
Iris Audio Processor: version EMU revision A4, number 1
DMediaPro DM10 FW option: unit 0, revision 1.1.0
USB controller: type OHCI
USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type keyboard
USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type mouse
IRIS 36#

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Wrote on the subject of CPU Core Counts: AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, BSD, etc. at July 6, 2013, 4:48 p.m...

the output from the "hinv -c processor" command

IRIS 46# hinv -c processor
1 600 MHZ IP35 Processor
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.4
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.4
IRIS 47#

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