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

[DaveMcGuiremcguire at neurotica.com]

  I don't know how 6.5.x would compare to 5.3 on those machines, but
I'm running 6.5.x on several similar machines with good performance.
Of course the R10000 Indigo2 is by far the best of them. :)

     -Dave McGuire

On August 7, Mike Hebel wrote:
> Just for comparison how would a 128meg, 200mhz,R4K Indy and Indigo 2 with 24
> bit graphics do running Irix 6.5.x?  I currently have one each of these
> running Irix 5.3 and I'm wondering if I should upgrade these to the latest
> and greatest.
> 
> Mike Hebel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Patrick Giagnocavo
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 11:09 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: IRIX 6.4? (was: Re: [SunRescue] SS10 SX board...curious)
> 
> 
> on 8/7/00 11:55 AM, Dave McGuire at mcguire at neurotica.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > Man, I've got a 16MHz R3000-based Personal Iris that does better
> > than that.  There's *something wrong* here.
> >
> > -Dave McGuire
> >
> > On August 7, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> >> We've obviously got different ideas of what "not too bad" means.  I tried
> >> to start one of the GUI admin tools, and it made the sound, but didn't do
> >> anything.  About half an hour later I looked, still nothing.  Then when I
> >> got back in from lunch (~1.5 hrs after I double clicked) I was amazed to
> >> see it up and running.  I had assumed it had cored or otherwise
> >> died.  That is one extreme, I was also amazed at how well it did GL stuff
> >> ( I really shouldn't have been), but I still wouldn't want to ever use it
> >> for my workstation.
> >> Nick
> >>
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Sounds more like a timeout problem - maybe it was trying to look up its
> hostname or something over the Net, and it was waiting for 30 or 60 seconds
> each time, or waiting for a daemon process to respond (that wasn't up and
> running).
> 
> I used to own a 33Mhz R3k Indigo (XZ graphics) and it was "ok" but by
> current standards would be considered too slow for GUI work.  But what a
> beautiful display (on a 20" monitor) with 24 bit color and hw GL!
> 
> Cordially
> 
> Patrick Giagnocavo
> a222 at redrose.net
> 
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