SGI....

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Zane H. Healy wrote:
> 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.

Why not get an Onyx2?  They've come down in price a lot.  I was thinking 
of picking one up myself.

Peace...  Sridhar