On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 03:24:08PM +0000, Luke A. Guest wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to the list and have been looking to buy an old SGI machine, for > development purposes. This means that I would be looking for a machine that > has a decent compile time, also, I want to play around with OpenGL, so decent > graphics is a must. > For the I2 series the specs for the graphics cars are lost. X is only supported for the indys, please read the archieve. > Now, I read in the archives some time ago that somebody knew of a place he > could get O2's (in Germany) for around $600; I don't know if this is true - > or just SPAM - but could that person get in touch with me please? > $600 are around DM1200 for this money you get an indigo2 but not an O2. > Anyway, I have been looking at the purple Indigo2 as these seem to really > cheap machines and rather expandable, but I can never seem to find anyone who > is selling Irix media - why is this? > A purple Indigo2 stands in front of me. You got Irix installations media when ypu buy a new machine or take in an auction of ebay. > I know that Linux doesn't work with I2's yet, but I'm also willing to "try" > to work on helping with that, as I'm currently looking into OS concepts on my > PC, so knowledge of other architecture's would be helpful. > False Linux runs on Iindigo2 but not not on O2, please read the archieve of the ml. > But how would I get access to documentation for I2's? I see (do far) that the > docs aren't available yet, what would I have to do? > Read the archieve of ml and ask the guys at sgi. > Thanks, > Luke A. Guest. -- Henning Heinold
