[SunRescue] Dumb Term

[Mike Meredith]

On Wednesday 23 May 2001 01:21, you wrote:
> woods at weird.com writes:
> >Of course the original IRIS-1000 was a SUN variant.....  :-)
>
> Yep.

Wouldn't know about that (but it sounds likely), but they all came out 
of the same building.

> >But the IRIS had disks -- the machine I'm thinking of had none, not
> > even provision for one.
>
> I've heard conflicting reports on the 1000 series. The 2000 and 3000s
> definately ran unix off local drives.

I seem to remember (from a very old FAQ) that most of the 1000 series 
was diskless (and intended to attach to VAXen as very high-end graphics 
terminals), but there was a later option to upgrade them with disks and 
an o/s. Possibly the 1500 was the first SGI that ran IRIX out of the 
factory.