swap: my SGI o2 for an amiga 4000

[TheMagicM]

there's an A4000 Toaster/TBC/PAR system on ebay.. bid on it.. oh yea, its one of my backups and it works PERFECT!

[pixie]

You who'd never seen an SGI working would be astonished by what it can do.

@stopthegop:
Beside being plain rude your wording clearly shows you have no clue about it...

[pixie]

hamtronix wrote:

Its not about pure power... otherwise dump all old computers.

Indeed, it's not about power, but there are few computers that were able to achieve broadcast video quality, SGI just happens to be one of them.

I had an Amiga, PPC et all, but nowadays being given to choose between one Amiga and a SGI I would chose the former as I'm perfectly satisfied with UAE.

SGI was a legend in all that was video related, and what it has reached cannot be emulated...

[Dr_Righteous]

You can't have my A4k, but I'll trade my 4 Indy's for that O2

[madcrow]

The SGI's are decent boxes (and they look pretty friggin sexy), but I suspect that a 4000 with an 060/PPC combo accelerator, PCI busboard and Voodoo3 RTG is the better system.

[murple]

The main problem with SGIs is that Irix is a pretty shortbus-riding Unix. You can run Linux on them, but then you probably cant run the cool SGI graphics software. Guess it depends on your needs.

[B00tDisk]

That SGI may indeed be more "powerful" than any Amiga. But no way is it better.

Thanks for providing me with my "idiotic quote of the week".

[orange]

there is nothing wrong with that 'quote'
why don't you trade your Amiga for some Celeron 300a, with integrated gfx, that is  cheaper than most bigbox Amiga and very 'powerful' compared to them..

[B00tDisk]

there is nothing wrong with that 'quote'
why don't you trade your Amiga for some Celeron 300a, with integrated gfx, that is cheaper than most bigbox Amiga and very 'powerful' compared to them..

You've obviously never even touched an SGI.

[Piru]

I've played with O2, and I didn't see anything special in it. Pretty sluggish OS and couple of fancy eyecandy apps.

[stopthegop]

You've obviously never even touched an SGI.

So in your view anyone who hasn't touched an SGI is an idiot?  Okaay..  

I think most of us here have at least 'touched' an SGI.  I'm not an expert on SGI systems such as yourself, but I have enough experience with them to know they are not as easy to use as an Amiga.  Not 100% sure but I also don't think the OS is modular, as the Amiga OS is.  Since your expertise with SGI is so much better than everyone else's, perhaps you can confirm this?  

[TheMagicM]

If you're not into video then what CAN you do with a o2?  Me thinks there isnt as huge of a software vault like Aminet for SGI machines.

[gazgod]

If you do find someone willing to trade and they have more 4000's to get rid of, i have a shed full of 02's and octanes

BTW if anyone is interested in one and are willing to collect from Lincolnshire UK, i can probably sort you out a nice SGI base unit for not a lot of cash.

Gaz

[koaftder]

You can do pretty much anything you can do on any other unix box with Irix. Run firefox, pretend to do work in Open Office, etc. Run apache, snort, blah blah. It's just another unix box with weird hardware.

I recently gave away all my SGI gear, I hardly ever used it, and I didn't really need a pile of antiquated gear in my closet. I also have gotten rid of my dec crap and my sun boxes. I don't use any expensive proprietary software on the nix machines, so it doesn't make sense to keep the old dinosaurs around.

[pixie]

So in your view anyone who hasn't touched an SGI is an idiot? Okaay..

I find it strange when a native speaker doesn't quite get what is written in HIS native language... :roll:

[pixie]

There's professional software, it is a dedicated machine for the purpose f doing video, not an all round machine who has once sold by the millions.