SGI....

[Zane H. Healy]

At 2:02 PM +0000 11/9/05, Jules Richardson wrote:
>Lack of responses to this probably indicates peoples' feelings 
>toward SGI these days unfortunately - they ceased being a cool 
>company five years ago :-(

My pair of O2's (a lowly R5k 180Mhz (the crappy one), and R12k 
270Mhz) are probably the most impressive machines I own (including my 
dual 2Ghz G5 PowerMac).  When I got the first one, the R5k, I was 
*totally* blown away (I'd been the SysAdmin for a couple of SGI 
systems years ago, but never really got to play with them).

Having said that, they're somewhat unfriendly to hobbyists, and 
they've pretty much killed off what made them cool, the MIPS range 
and IRIX.  I don't know what it would have taken, but I can't help 
but think that they should have spent some resources porting IRIX to 
Itanium, rather than spending all that effort on Linux.

I'd love to get a nice SGI Octane2 or Tezro, but I sure can't justify 
the expense!  It would make more sense to spend the money on either a 
Sunblade 1000, or building a good Linux box.

		Zane


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