Subject: Re: R3000 SGI boxes
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Dave Olson <olson@bengaltech.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 05/03/2000 01:18:53
Toru Nishimura wrote: 
|  > I don't recall if there was a prom call in the pre-ARC prom based
|  > systems to find out the platform type.  It should be possible to
|  > figure it out one way or another though.
|  
|  The pre-ARCS age SGI PROM looks quite similar, or near identical, to
|  what we can see R3000/R4000 Magnum made by MIPS Computer Systems.

Only similar in the sense that years earlier they had a common
lineage/structure of the prom.  The hardware was quite different.



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