[rescue] SGI

[Andrew Jones]

On an R4400 Indigo2, the only real choice is between IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.5. The decisive factors are how much ram you have got, and what commercial software you want to run.

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 02:42, Thomas Pelki via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> Hi John-Paul,
>
> Did NOT know about SGI's "Techpubs" and thanks for the link. looking at it now.
>
> so other than IRIX, what other OS does anybody recommend for the indigo2 (Teal)??
>
> -Thomas
>
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 8:47 AM John-Paul Stewart via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2023-10-04 00:12, Thomas Pelki via rescue wrote:
>>> Hi John-Paul,
>>>
>>> Thank you for all the information, Below is what I know about mine so far:
>>>
>>> The model number is CMNB007Y100
>>
>> That would indicate a 200MHz R4400 system. Not bad at all, IMHO.
>>
>>> has the 3 card set graphics (extreme graphics) 013-8764-001
>>> Missing whatever the card was below the graphics and no i/o plate
>>> 12 sticks of RAM (still trying to figure out how to remove the CD-ROM
>>> base so I can get to the CPU and the RAM)
>>
>> Are you familiar with SGI's "Techpubs"? It was what they called their
>> documentation collection. The original website is long gone, but there
>> are several mirrors on-line these days. One is:
>>
>> https://techpubs.jurassic.nl/manuals/hdwr/enduser/
>>
>> The "Indigo2 Workstation Owner's Guide" has the info you'll need to get
>> at the RAM in Chapter 3.
>>
>> There's *tons* of useful info in the other Techpubs manuals, too!
>>
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