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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 18 Mar 1997 06:19:33 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Ken Apa
wrote on 13 Mar (in article <5g9mfj$emd@news.ecn.bgu.edu>):
=Sure....That's why I'm trying to sell my PentiumPro because I always use
=the Indigo that sits next to it. Remember, The Indigo is from 1991, and
=the PPro is from 1996.
And I just do the opposite. In fact, I made the Indigo "headless" -- to
occupy less of the table. The only reason it even exists for me, is because
I have to compile on it -- we write our software for Irix. It still beats
WinNT, of course (which is our second platform), but I do all my development
on FreeBSD box.
=My PPro is running Linux and has the same amount of memory as my SGI.
=Compile time are faster on the PPro, but at least glDrawPixels works right
=on the Indigo, unlike the MetroX version of OpenGL that runs on the Linux
=box.
MMmm, OpenGL is SGI's invention, of course it works there...
>: Then software. C compiler for SGI costs more then my home computer
>: entirely, C-compiler (GNU) included. And gcc will not build on SGI
>: without cc already there. NFS-server is an option too (500-600$).
>: So is "document processing" package (without it, you can not really
>: view man-pages you add). No way!!
=
=Hey be fare, they give you Showcase. It's saved me from having to buy a
=wordprocessor just to write me resumes in. The C compile isn't that much
=if you buy it bundled with the machine, and you do get a heck of a lot of
=books with it.
Write them in HTML :)
=You can pick up a nice O2 for $6,000.
The 1G SCSI drive from SGI costs ~1000 dollars... Upgrades would be
too expensive...
>: I'd be glad to be corrected here, because I like SGI's support for
>: development of TIFF, hylafax, InterViews and wish them luck.
=I used to be anti-sgi for a lot of the same reasons, but you just need to
=buy a used Indy for around $2,300 to snap you out of it.
That's what we did. And it had Irix 5.2. And SGI will not give us patches,
as we purchased it second hand without "service contract".
-mi
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