Re: [gopher] dust off your SGI workstations
I run AIX on some of my workstations. Pretty good as far as Unixes
go, but SGI/IRIX isn't bad either. I'm mostly a BSD man myself,
though. Could be worse... could be (puke!) Windows.
On 3 March 2013 13:12, Kim Holviala <kim@holviala.com> wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2013, at 20:04, Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com> wrote:
>
> [SGI O2]
>>> It was just so picky about *everything*. Only certain (freaking loud) SCSI
>>> drives would work, couldn't install IRIX with that CPU - had to install with
>>> my 200MHz R5k, upgrade IRIX and the swap CPUs. Which was dangerous because
>>> the whole thing would break if i looked it the wrong way....
>>
>> How bizarre. Though I do hear that the O2s aren't so good with the plastics.
>> Maybe I'll just get a Fuel.
>
> I had a Fuel too, and that was just SO much better. O2 had terrible plastics - i once dropped the cdrom faceplate 30cm down to a table and it broke down. Also the electronics were horrible, the whole machine just barely works...
>
> Fuel, however, is pretty much IBM quality - built like a tank and worked wonderfully.
>
>>> Also... IRIX just plain sucks , from an AIX point of view :-D
>>
>> I certainly prefer AIX as an enterprise Unix, but then, I was a sysadmin
>> for 3.2.5 and 4.1 in my previous career, so I'm accustomed to it. :)
>
>
> I trained all kinds of AIX courses up until last year :-D.
>
> Of course, "If you can, do, if you can't, teach. If you can't teach, consult"
>
> Yeah, I did consulting too....
>
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> - Kim
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