From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id TAA21822 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:50:08 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id TAA37949 for linux-list; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:49:21 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id TAA65518; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:49:18 -0800 (PST) mail_from (adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca) Received: from lager.engsoc.carleton.ca (lager.engsoc.carleton.ca [134.117.69.26]) by sgi.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id TAA02056; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:49:17 -0800 (PST) mail_from (adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca) Received: from localhost (adevries@localhost) by lager.engsoc.carleton.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA03676; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:50:33 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: lager.engsoc.carleton.ca: adevries owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:50:33 -0500 (EST) From: Alex deVries To: Greg Chesson cc: Ariel Faigon , Fredrik Rovik , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Status In-Reply-To: <9812211416.ZM2078@xtp.engr.sgi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Greg Chesson wrote: > I2 means Indigo2. > Extreme means he has a high-end graphics board. > The I2 is like the Indy, but has two built-in SCSI channels rather > than one. It tends to not have all the multi-media stuff on the motherboard > that you find on the Indy. I have an I2 because - unlike the Indy - > I can put two XL graphics cards in it and run a two-head display. > The I2 also allows for an Extreme card and an XL (but not 2 Extreme's). > Also, can have more memory than an Indy. The Indigo2 sounds a lot like a Challenge S; is the internal architecture similiar to the Indy/Challenge S as well? - Alex