IRIX 6.4? (was: Re: [SunRescue] SS10 SX board...curious)

[Dave McGuire]

  Huh?  No way, man.  I've put together plenty if Indy systems with
various R4000 and R4400 processors, ranging from 100MHz to 200MHz, all
with Irix 6.5.x...they do just fine.  I skipped 6.4 completely...if
you're seeing that much of a performance problem running 6.4 on your
Indy, I suggest there's the possibility of some sort of performance
bug in 6.4 that's been fixed in 6.5.

         -Dave McGuire

On August 7, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> Hehe, anything much older than an O2 won't run 6.4 in any worthwhile
> way.  I know, I've got a "speed daemon" r5k 180mhz indy running 6.4.7 (I
> think, might be 6.4.8), and it HURTS.  I've never seen a gui that slow
> since I ditched the 386 that was running xfree86.  It might work ok sorta
> mabey if you nuked all the GUI, and had a nice GIO scsi system, running
> nothing but exactly what you needed.
> 	Nick
> 
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Bjrn Ramqvist wrote:
> 
> > Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > > 
> > > > won't be bothering with X on any of my SPARCs.  IRIX is just too good.
> > > >       Grego
> > > 
> > > *shudder*
> > > 
> > > I suppose that may be true for a home network, but I have a friend who
> > > went from an all-Sun shop to Sun and SGI, and is now back to being all-Sun
> > > BECAUSE of IRIX and the (lack of) support SGI gives out.
> > > 
> > > Fun stuff like:
> > > 
> > > Admin: We've got this bug.
> > > SGI: That's fixed in 6.4
> > > Admin: But my machines won't run 6.4
> > > SGI: Correct.
> > > Admin: So can I get a fix for my machines?
> > > SGI: That bug is fixed in 6.4
> > > 
> > > Ugh.
> > 
> > Uuh... just for curiosity, what machine doesn't run 6.4, beside the
> > Chrimson and the old R3000-based Indigos and Personal IRISes?
> > Those were dog-slow anyway, so consider that as an almost as "foul act"
> > of dropping old hardware support as Sun does with Sun4 vs SunOS 2.6 and
> > Sun4c vs SunOS 2.8.
> > IRIX 6.4 should be no problem, even on fairly old hardware.
> > 
> > 
> > 	/Regards, Bjorn
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