thus Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch> spake:

> Hello Pete
> 
> Pete Wright wrote:
> 
> > Honestly, if you are interested in running X on an SGI I would strongly
> > suggest using IRIX.  The graphics hardware and IRIX OS are very tightly
> > coupled, so I do not think you will find a third party OS (Open or not)
> > that will match the performance and reliability of IRIX.  It's also a
> > pretty great OS and pkgsrc works great on it as well! :)
> 
> I had for 6 1/2 years a SGI O2 R5000 (200MHz, I guess) running as 
> my deskop workstation at home with IRIX 6.x. Even with 448 MB RAM 
> it was just slow in the end, especially for webbrowsing. Netscape 
> 4.8 (which is included with IRIX) is not state of the art anymore 
> and had problems with "modern" websites, and Mozilla from the 
> Freeware CD just run to slow to be any usefull.
> 
> But remember, the Design of the O2 is from the last century, and 
> the OpenGL Demos are still impressive.
> 
> About a year ago I switch my desktop workstation to an other unix 
> like operating system with nice graphical features. Look at the 
> headers of this mail if you want to know which OS it runs. ;)

seems like you're switching from one dying platform to the other :D 

(SCNR: but i almost bet that Apple won't sell computers any more in about 5 years -- if it takes that long -- perhaps they're even no longer existing then; i was a Apple/Mac die hard for about 15 years. but this ended on 6th of june. jobs destroying yet another company... who cares -- the shareholders do not at the moment (!), and that's most important nowadays it seems...)

sorry for being that much OT, but this thing is most funny thing in this century 'til now :D

timo