[rescue] IDing a SGI part number

[Nick]

O2s are a fucking funky beast.  The only thing I wish is when they went to
o2+ they'd gone to ddr, doubleing the memory bandwidth again, cause that's
the only point it's lacking.  The memory is 128bits wide on the dimms,
dimms installed in pairs (not sure about the physical layout, may be
64bits per dimm) multiplexed to 64bits double the clock speed when it hits
the chipset.  Very very intresting beasts.
	Nick

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 jdboyd at jdboyd.zill.net wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:34:04PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On Dec 5, 2003, at 5:35 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > >>Confused. Hope the box is not some SGI 320 or 540 or so?
> > >
> > >For $12k in 1999, it's probably a 540.  If you don't want it, let me
> > >have at it.  Those are neat little systems.
> > 
> >   Oh yeah?  What's neat about them?
> 
> They have no BIOS, and use the O2's UMA graphics system.  Don't they
> also use interleaved memory?  Anyone?  
> 
> However, if you want to run anything other than Windows NT4 or Windows
> 2000 on them, you loose any fancy graphics features (reports are
> conflicting as to if XFree will run at all.  I suspect it may, but
> perhaps slowly and bugily in 2D only using code that hasn't made into
> the core Xfree distro).
> 
> Frankly, I wouldn't mind one, but it would end up as a headless linux
> machine.  I'd probably max the ram and CPUs, and stuff in a corner in my
> office at work to use for builds and source code navigation.
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