SGI Indigo upgrade (1)
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Not a big one: I add another 32 MB of RAM, thus the machine nov has 80 MB in
total (the maximul amout of RAM is 96 MB). It may sound like a tiny deal but
actually it is a nice addition which allows to run more large programs at once.
Old IRIXes (possibly except the IRIX 5.0) are not RAM-hungry and SGI machines
can happily run big applications with 128 MB of RAM. But some apps need a lot
of memory so any added MB is nice.
The hinv command now outputs this:
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1 33 MHZ IP12 Processor
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 4.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0
On-board serial ports: 2
On-board bi-directional parallel port
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Main memory size: 80 Mbytes
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 0
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision C
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Iris Audio Processor: revision 10
Graphics board: GR2-XS24
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At the moment I run here a Netscape (for reading today Technomorous's articlre
about databanks), have some instances on the Gvim 8.0, teh GNU Octave and my
finite lement code and everything is still fast and snappy.
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