[rescue] SGI box... what exactly is it?

[Mike Meredith]

On Tuesday 19 June 2001 01:52, you wrote:
> Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spit in awe as Matthew Haas 
exclaimed:
> > It's an r4k box... but from what I've read, 6.5.x will run on it...
> > interesting thing is, the indigo is never on any of the lists I've
> > read that irix 6.4 supports... or is it just expected?
>
> Irix 6.4 only supports a limited set of machines, IIRC these include
> the Octane, Origin, Origin II, and *maybe* the 02, I'd have to go

OriginII ? 

Don't think it'll support the O2 --- 6.3 is for that machine.

> just installed 6.5 on my  R4600 Indy, and I am seriously considering
> wiping it out and putting 6.2 back on it.  6.5.11 is dog slow on it.

Lack of memory ? 6.5 eats up even more memory than 6.2 and really needs 
128Mbytes to run at a decent speed.