On Mon, 28 May 2001, Robert Sinland wrote: > Was that available on the Indigo as well? Indeed it is. > Doesn't seem to be loaded on mine in any case, and copies of the > Irix OS are just plain out of sight. (unless you don't mind paying more > for the OS then what your computer cost) If you're talking about eBay prices, you ought to ask SGI what they charge for a copy, without educational or other discounts. It's a couple of grand, I believe. > On another semi-related topic, are there any books at _all_ on the > SGI line of computers in general, or the idigo in particular? > Did some searching on Amazon and came up with nada... SGI has a pretty good set of online things, if you can figure out how to wade through their stuff. Here are a few more links to check, if you haven't already: http://techpubs.sgi.com/ http://www.reputable.com/indytech.html **probably a good place to start http://freeware.sgi.com/ MIPS versions of many of the Linux untils you are used to. Note that there ain't no free SGI compiler, so you want to go get gcc from the freeware site. I've got a few more, like www.mashek.com (up in Ham Lake), and there are some others, but I think you can start unraveling the thread from the reputable site. There aren't a lot of third party books on it, though, because SGI never has been anything but a niche manufacturer. This means that the books are harder / weirder to find, but that what you do find is (usually) a little more authoritative, and there's less duplication of material. Also, amazon's a bad choice -- try www.powells.com, since they have a specialty of dealing with used techincal books. HTH, Phil M -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous