[rescue] Re: SGI

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 04:18 PM, Corda Albert J DLVA wrote:
>>> 5.3 capable:
>>> 1 4D/25
>>
>>    Ahh, blast from the past...I wrote a *lot* of software on one of
>> these, under IRIX 3.2 and 4.0.
>
>
> They are nice critters... a bit slow by today's standards, but 
> reliable.
> And, of course, they still do everthing they were originally intended 
> to do
> quite
> nicely!  When they came out with the 4D/35 they tried to use the same
> case/cooling
> as the /25, but ran into problems... the d**m things overheat if you 
> look at
> them the wrong way (even with the fan upgrade).  My main use for them 
> now is
> to prove to the occasional visitor that you don't need to have a 1.5 
> Ghz CPU
> in order to do something useful. All you really need is a _well 
> designed_
> machine.

   Balance is a good thing...a very good thing indeed.  PeeCees are 
*anything* but balanced.

        -Dave

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