Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: > since someone was asking yesterday, I found that > Ars Technica had a review of them a year or more ago. > http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/1q99/sgivw.html > > they sound very sexy, tho. :) a boot PROM instead of a BIOS, a crossbar switch instead of a shared bus, and 2 64-bit PCI slots... > <drool> > > Carl Soderstrom That review is about the 320 & 540, which have been discontinued. The new machines, 230, 330 & 550, are much more stock ia32 boxes, with special attention to graphics (I don't know graphics, though, so I can't talk about details). For details, see <http://www.sgi.com/workstations/index.html>. -- John Hesterberg email: jh at sgi.com Technical Project Leader phone: 651-683-5879 HPC Linux SGI --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org