Unix (17)

Octane

Silicon Graphics Home The Octane was SGI's replacement for the Indigo 2. It is a powerful workstation with impressive graphics capabilities. The Octane could have 2 CPUs, and many different expansion cards installed into its proprietary XIO bus. The Octane is a modular design with…

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Indigo 2

Silicon Graphics Home The Indigo 2 was the first Silicon Graphics machine I acquired. I would like to add the purple model with high impact graphics to my collection one day. My system has a 150 MHz R4400 with 128MB of RAM and GR3-XZ Graphics.

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Indy

Silicon Graphics Home The Indy is my favorite Silicon Graphics machine, just for the case design. I love the color, the speckled finish, and how the case looks like its fractured horizontally. The Indy is well known for being underpowered, an "Indigo without the go".

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 Silicon Graphics

Indy Indigo 2 Octane Silicon Graphics workstations are legendary among Unix workstations, mostly for their impressive graphics hardware, and their unique case designs. Another thing I find interesting is how special the workstations were. It would be very rare for someone to have an SGI…

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Sun Fire v240

Sun Microsystems Home Nothing to say about this since I haven't even installed an OS yet. This is the fastest Sun I have, so I'd to find a graphics card that works in it and run a modern OS.

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