Hello to you all ….Here go me …!…Iv recently got my self a 0 2..whoo hoo !.cheep ..of course..from ebay….and have found that my Houdini apprentice wont run on Irix 6.3 or watevr it is …it needs 6.5..apparntly…Doh!… Last time I wrote here ,someone told me the right version of Irix to get.. and I am lookin….should have it pretty soon..think it waz ver 19…My next question to any of you ..is ….Can I also get Softwindows for this Irix 6.5 .19 rig and run stuff like Premier…and 3D max on my 02….would be cool …why did,t I just buy a souped up PC you may ask ..Well..Listen Iv drooled over these machines for years and Im gonna run one if it kills me …Please help…any info on all this malarcky..would be appreicated..
I'm sure you don't want to hear this now , but the O2's, while usable, have been pretty well left behind in the tech race. It's just an issue of time. In fact, just recently I was doing some mantra render tests using the MIPS R12000 cpus on one of our infernos(yours will be significantly slower than that), and it could barely keep up with a P4 2.4! On the graphics side, as I say, the O2's are usable, but you can get a comparable workstation without spending a wad now(Linux! Cheap! Flexible! FAST! ). As far as Softwindows - can't that only run Win95? I thought I heard that they got as far as Win98 on a Mac, but I'm unsure about the whole Irix thing…
Very good. You'd think I'd know this but I haven't used an SGI in over a year now. ops:
One thing I do know is that there is no embedded html browser for IRIX. You will get the raw HTML and no javascript. This is the direction that we are taking to deliver much of our new tutorials and orientation information.
, but the O2's, while usable, have been pretty well left behind in the tech race. It's just an issue of time. In fact, just recently I was doing some mantra render tests using the MIPS R12000 cpus on one of our infernos(yours will be significantly slower than that), and it could barely keep up with a P4 2.4! On the graphics side, as I say, the O2's are usable, but you can get a comparable workstation without spending a wad now(Linux! Cheap! Flexible! FAST! 
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