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Re: Fwd: Silicon Graphics Indy workstations?



Eric C. Cooper wrote: 
> > | 	The main question we need answered is what version of Debian is
> > | required for this architecture?  Alpha, ARM, SPARC, ...?
> 
> SGI used MIPS processors for their workstations.

MIPS R2000, R3000 and R4000 (I think), to be more precise.
I don't think Linux is ported to this architecture. The OS was IRIX, and
it wasn't the best. Lots of security holes, no fixes...

I programmed asm on Indy in a hardware course.

:) Erik.
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