[OT] Pegasos PPC

[Atro Tossavainen]

Norberto,

> As peecee's became the norm I often wondered why a 16Mhz SGI workstation
> running linux worked so much better than a 500Mhz PC with 512MB of ram
> running windoze.

There are rather few SGI workstations running Linux at all.  In general,
they do not work very well, mainly because support for SGI graphics
boards does not exist in any useful way in any free OS and as a result
their usability is severely limited.

The 16 MHz models, which date from the mid-eighties, aren't even amongst
the ones that run Linux in any way.  They are either 680x0-based (IRIS
3010, 3020, 3030, 3110, 3115, 3120, 3120B, 3130), which are not supported
by linux-m68k, or MIPS R2000 based (4D80, 85, 120), which are not
supported by linux-mips, either.

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