The collected works of vishnu - Page 19

duck wrote: An odd game, the only move is not to play

GIJoe wrote: ...since the automatic GPU-switching when connected to an external monitor on wakeup can lead to a kernel panic (one of the gazillion of documented yet eternally unresolved problems on the apple forums, sadly).

kjaer wrote: What makes you sure it's a 50z? I see nothing to distinguish it from a plain 50, or even a 70.

surrealdeal wrote: I used to have one of those from a thrift-store in 2004; had a bunch of boring files on it from the state sherrif's office on it.
The hard-drive ( fixed disk ) died after a day but I was strangely able to run a floppy based distro of linux on it, although it gave me non-maskable-interrupt errors every few minutes.

sgtprobe wrote:

vishnu wrote: straight to the smelter...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo

jan-jaap wrote: I used to pull 4D PowerSeries out of garages for HFL 50 (about 25EUR). They were not worth much because people liked the read of the Crimson better than the brown Power Series. Now there's people who think the individual boards are worth 1K .

jimmer wrote: @pip - perhaps this might work on your desired platforms?

https://github.com/tweakoz/twilight

jodys wrote: Actually the VICE is three seperate things: a DMA engine, the bitstream processor which is a a weirdo 16 bit custom MIPS CPU that is designed for Huffman coding/decoding, and the aforementioned R3K which is paired with a SIMD vector coprocessor, AKA the MSP. The MSP can execute a scalar and a vector instruction simultaneously, so really the VICE ought to be thought of as three additional CPUs. openGL, the imaging libraries, and the digital media libraries execute code on the VICE through a library, libvice, in Irix. I have yet to locate any headers for libvice, though. Fun fact: Irix ships with microcode for the VICE for MPEG2 encoding and decoding, but there is no support in the rest of Irix. MPEG2 was one of the major design goals for the VICE, but somehow all we get is MJPEG. Maybe the chip didn't perform as well as desired. I don't know.

rooprob wrote: To Vishnu comment not that the demise of sgi isn't already well covered I believe the SGI descendant of the O2 was the Visual Workstation. The O2+ was a pretty cynical relaunch of the original with minimal engineering effort.