As Geert pointed out, the big-endian SGI hardware configuration and the little-endian PDA configuration mean that you'll be cross-compiling for "mipsel" (MIPS endian-little) on the Indigo anyway. SGI did use industry-standard monitors, keyboards, and disks units of the period (which was 10 years ago - they could be hard to find today), but used non-standard NIC and memory cards. You're probably better off using a Linux PC as your development host. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark and Janice Juszczec" <juszczec@hotmail.com> To: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 17:20 Subject: hardware questions > > Hi folks > > I'm the guy with the Helio pda running an r3912 chip. In an effort to > create a better development environment, I'm thinking about puchasing a > Silicon Graphics Iris Indigo Workstation. > > But, I'm unfamiliar with MIPS hardware. > > First of all, will code developed on this machine run on the r3912 chip? > The r3912 is little endian mips, 16 bit I think but maybe 32 bit. > > Can off the shelf monitors, keyboards, hard drives, NICs and memory be > installed in this system? > > Mark > > _________________________________________________________________ > Grab our best dial-up Internet access offer: 6 months @$9.95/month. > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup > > >
