Re: [SLUG] SGI Octane-> Linux?

[Richard Neal <phlizard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Give me $2k and I would build a kick arse AMD 64 bit machine 

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:34, Jasper Streit wrote:
> I was wasting time on ebay today (as you do) and stumbled across this 
> australian crowd selling some nice SGI octane boxes at around 
> AU$2000(for the 400Mhz) and felt the urge to spend. I'm curious to see 
> just how effective these enormously expensive beasts are- after all, 
> the one i am looking at in particular comes with a really nice sound 
> setup.
> A little google research on linux running on the octanes, there was a 
> lot of mixed reports of the success or impossibility of running such a 
> machine. very confusing.
> Basically i was just wondering if anybody on this list runs a MIPS box 
> with any success?
> Am i simply mad or is there a world of computing possibility out 
> there???
> 
> Cheers,
> Jasper
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Richard Neal <phlizard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>