I remember dreaming of running quake on a silicon graphic machine over a T1 line. Had no clue what the specs were but they sure sounded like I could pawn all the noobs while downloading the whole Napster collection in an hour.
So do I. Recently got rid of a sgi U320 (the strange ARC than ran Windows NT) and a SUN Blade 1000 after my Sun Hypersparc finally died and I decided that I definitely lack the space to go on collecting UNIX machines.
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lemmyng@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
Lovely machine! Although I'm partial to the O2.
Kaput@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
I remember dreaming of running quake on a silicon graphic machine over a T1 line. Had no clue what the specs were but they sure sounded like I could pawn all the noobs while downloading the whole Napster collection in an hour.
Blade9732@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
"It's a Unix system! I know this!"
b_tr3e@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
IRIX 2.7 if I remember correctly. It would run Linux too but there's no way to find an X-server for the sgi graphics.
Blade9732@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Yep IRX. About as close as you could get to real for movie...i just always remember it because of SGI. They built some awesome machines in the 90's.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 1y
Do you use it for something in 2025?
I have an octane sat idle that I can't bear to part with for some reason.
b_tr3e@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
So do I. Recently got rid of a sgi U320 (the strange ARC than ran Windows NT) and a SUN Blade 1000 after my Sun Hypersparc finally died and I decided that I definitely lack the space to go on collecting UNIX machines.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
Snap. I have a b1000 too. Bloody huge and heavy. Used to use it for OpenBSD stuff.
b_tr3e@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
I was running Solaris 11 most of the time, later converted it to Linux because of audio stuff. Was my primary desktop machine for quite a while.